THE COMPLETE ANGLER. Extensively Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood, from Original Paintings and Drawings, by First-Rate Artists. To which are added, An Introductory Essay; The Linnaean Arrangement of the Various River-Fish Delineated in the Work; and Illustrated Notes

John Major, 1823

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Anno di pubblicazione

1823

Luogo di stampa

London

Autore

Walton

Editori

John Major

Edizione

FIRST EDITION OF JOHN MAJOR'S SUPERB ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF

Prima edizione

Sì

Descrizione

The Important First John Major edition. With 14 copper-engraved plates, including 2 portraits, 2 plates of music, and 10 lovely illustrations engraved by Cook and Pye after drawings by Wale and Nash, and with 77 woodcuts throughout the text. 12mo, in contemporary full tan polished calf, the boards with blind-embossed ruled boarders with floral corner pieces, with handsome antique rebacking, the spine with raised bands with gilt checks and stops creating gilt framed compartments featuring smaller gilt frames within, with starburst corners, one compartment with a gilt ruled and lettered brown morocco label, additional gilt work at the head and tail, endpapers and page edges marbled. lx, 412, [4 ads] pp. An very attractive copy of this important and handsomely illustrated edition, the textblock is solid and quite clean with just a bit of mellowing to the prelims, the binding sound and attractive with just minor expected age to the calf, the inner hinges neatly reinforced, early owner's notations on front blank fly-leaf.