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Walton Izaak

The Complete Anger by Izaak Walton & Charles Cotton. Edited by 'Ephemera' of 'Bell's Life in London'. Second Edition. EPHEMERA IN FULL CALF

Nathaniel Cooke, 1854

80,50 €

Island Books

(Devon, Regno Unito)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1854
Autore
Walton Izaak
Editori
Nathaniel Cooke
Soggetto
sports, pastimes, angling, fishing, walton, cotton, major, compleat angler, fine bindings, bindings, izaak walton, charles cotton, sports, pastimes, angling, complete, anger, izaak, walton, charles, cotton
Lingue
Inglese

Descrizione

8vo., Second Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece, decorative and printed titles, printed title-vignette, facsimile of title of first edition, 3 engraved plates of flies, and 39 woodcut illustrations (including 19 of fish and 3 of tackle and 3 of flies) in the text; strongly bound in contemporary full calf, sides with double frame border in blind, neatly rebacked in calf to style, back with brown leather label lettered in gilt, marbled edges, doublures tooled in blind, marbled endpapers, corners mildly rubbed, a very good, clean copy. Fitzgibbon's charming edition was first published in the previous year in Ingram's 'Illustrated Library'. It includes a biographical sketch of Walton condensed from Hawkins' edition of 1797. Westwood & Satchell term this 'a pretty and useful edition'. Westwood & Satchell, p. 232.
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