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

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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. Profusely illustrated throughout with a vignette half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 17 illustrations of fish within the text, 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 mottled calf, the covers with triple gilt fillet rules and cornerpieces at the borders, the spine with raised bands, gilt ruled panels within the compartments are tooled with fishing motifs in gilt at the centers and elaborately decorated in gilt at the borders, lettered in gilt in two compartments, all edges gilt. vi, 512 pp. A very good and handsome copy with some mild rubbing to the extremities, the binding is strong, the text-block and illustrations are clean and well preserved.