THE COMPLETE ANGLER; or Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing.with the Lives of the Authors; and Notes, Historical, Critical and Explanatory. By Sir John Hawkins

2 volumes. First of the Edition, and the First Two Volume Edition. Tegg publishes the classic Hawkins edition of 1797. Two engraved portraits, vignette title pages, woodcuts in the text throughout. 16mo, 5" x 3 1/8", very handsomely bound in dark green polished calf, the covers with double gilt fillet borders, the spines with raised bands gilt stopped, gilt panels within the compartments of the spine, two compartments lettered in gilt, gilt filleted turnovers, gilt ruled binding edges, top page edges gilt. viii, 284; 267 pp. Complete though misbound. A fine copy of this rare printing, the bindings, text-blocks and hinges all in fine order, very light mellowing to the calf at the spine panels.

Edizione: rare first two volume edition of one of the great books in english literature. first tegg edition. the complete angler is a great sporting book, and one of the most treasured works in the english language. walton's angler has been described as "full of wisdom, kindly humour, and charity; it is one of the most delightful and care-dispelling books in the language." "more than most authors he lives in his writings, which are the pure expression of a kind, humorous and pious soul in love with nature, while the expression itself is unique for apparent simplicity which is really elaborately studied art" (dnb).