THE COMPLETE ANGLER or The Cntemplative Man's Recreation [with,] Part II. Being Instructions HOW TO ANGLE FOR A TROUT OR GRAYLING IN A CLEAR STREAM [with,] TREATISE ON FLIES AND FLY-HOOKS by the Late John Jackson of Tanfield HIll.

First Printing of this Special, Extra-Large Paper and Extra-Illustrated Edition, specially designed for collectors of this most famous work, originally issued unbound, though folded and collated, and left for the collector to bind to their personal specifications. This is copy number 38 of only 120 copies printed. Extra Illustrated, including fifty steel plate engravings designed by J. Stothard, James Inskip, Edward Hassell, Delamotte, Binkenboom, W. Hixon, Sir Francis Sykes, Pine and others, all engraved by famous engravers. And with six original etchings and two portraits, as well as seventy four engravings on wood by famous artists, the portraits of Walton and Cotton in two states at the beginning of each of the texts. To this are also added ten steel plates, coloured, of various flies both natural and artificial. Large, thick quarto, exquisitely bound in fine three-quarter red crushed goatskin over marbled paper covered boards, the spine with wide raised bands gilt tooled, the compartments decorated with gilt filleted panels incorporating elaborate inner borders surrounding central ornamental tools of fishermen at sport, fishes, and creel, lettered in gilt in two compartments, top and bottom edges gilt tooled, the joins at the covers gilt ruled, top edge gilt. A splendid binding indeed. xv, [1], 445, 16 pp. An excellent copy, beautifully preserved, the binding rich in colour, the gilt bright and unblemished, the text-block and illustrations in pristine condition. An especially fine copy.