Presentation Copy. CHARLES COTTON. 1630-1687. Being instructions how to angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear stream. Part II only. London: for Richard Marriott and Henry Broome, 1676. 12mo (143 x 88 mm). Engraved cipher on title, woodcut headpiece and initial. Small chip to bottom margin of title just touching the last of the roman numerals in imprint, a few leaves trimmed close at top margin touching running header, tanned with some light staining. Contemporary calf. Spine rubbed and chipped affecting label, endpapers sometime probably renewed. Provenance: Robert Norton Ganz (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. This copy features the highly important contemporary inscription 'ex dono Carol[i] Cotton armigeri' on the flyleaf, denoting that the volume was a direct gift from the author, Charles Cotton, Esquire. Written at the request of his friend Izaak Walton to complete the definitive 1676 fifth edition of The Compleat Angler, Cotton's treatise revolutionized fly-fishing literature. Presentation copies of this crucial 17th-century angling classic are exceptionally scarce. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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