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Walton

THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. In Two Parts: The First Written by Mr. Isaac Walton; The Second by Charles Cotton, Esq. With The Lives of the Authors: And Notes, Historical, Critical, Supplementary and Explanatory;by Sir John Hawkins

for Samuel Bagster, In the Strand, 1808

935.00 €

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(Newburyport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
1808
Place of printing
London
Author
Walton
Publishers
for Samuel Bagster, In the Strand
Edition
THE FIRST BAGSTER EDITION. The Bagster printing of 1808 was the
First edition
Yes

Description

The First Bagster Edition. Vignette half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 17 illustrations of fish within the text, 15 full page engraved plates in black and white, 2 pages of engraved music, some additioinal wood cuts in the text. 8vo, bound in full antique calf, by S. Ray of Duke Street, London, the covers with triple gilt fillet rules and cornerpieces at the borders, an inner framed panel with gilt floral tooling and gilt fillet rules to each cover, initials within, the spine with raised bands, gilt ruled panels within the compartments are tooled with fishing motifs in gilt at the centers, lettered in gilt in one compartment. vi, 512 pp. A very good copy with some mild rubbing to the extremities, the binding is strong, the text-block and illustrations are clean and well preserved.
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