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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

1045.00 €

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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 IN A GOSDEN BINDING. The Bagster
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 additional wood cuts in the text. 8vo, bound in a Gosden binding of full contemporary speckled calf, the covers with double gilt fillet rules at the borders surrounding a fish in gilt at the center of the covers, the spine with raised bands gilt stopped, compartments tooled in gilt, lettered in gilt in one compartment on a black morocco label, marbled endleaves. 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.