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Photography Books & Fine Books in All Fields
11:00 AM PT - Dec 12th, 2008

 

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The Compleat Angler 1888 by Izaak Walton

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Title: The Compleat Angler; or the Contemplative Man's Recreation...
Author: Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton
Description: 2 volumes. xcvii, [b]-t, 357 pp. Edited by R.B. Marston. Illustrated with 54 photogravures including portrait frontispieces (captioned on tissue guards), plus about 100 woodcuts, and 3 maps. 12½x9½, brown morocco-backed green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, top edges gilt. No. 242 of 250 Royal Quarto Edition de Luxe copies, signed by the editor.Stunning photogravures of idyllic English river scenery after photographs by P.H. Emerson and George Bankart. This 100th edition also reprints the "Chronicle of The Compleat Angler," a bibliography by Westwood and Satchell.
Heading: zzk(Angling)Place Published: London
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
Date Published: 1888

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This is a two day auction running Thursday 12/11 and Friday 12/12. Invoices will not be available before Monday 12/15.


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Spines sunned and worn, especially at joints, cloth stained, corners bumped; frontispiece to Volume 1 detached but present; else very good.

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