Fishing

Longmans, Green & Co, 1889. 5th edition. Badminton Library. Decorative cloth. . Good /No Jacket. Edgewear to cover, mild foxing throughout. xvii, 481, (2) pp. more information

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Adam & Charles Black, 1955. Reprint of 1940 first edition. Hard covers, no dust jacket. V.g/No Jacket. Internally well preserved, boards sl. soiled. An introduction to angling, packed with sound advice. Device of leaping fish on front cover. viii, 227, (4) pp. more information

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London & Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, 1935. 2bd edition. Printed boards. Good /No Jacket. Spine split at top front edge, small water stain at foot of front cover, rear cover marked; owner's signature. viii, 138, (4) pp. more information

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David & Charles, 1979. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/V.g. Top edge of pages slightly tanned, otherwise very good. As with all Shell Books, this is a reliably fact-filled guide to game fishing, coarse fishing and sea angling. Illustrated with diagrams, photographs and colour plates, each chapter has a different author. A passing reference to Isaak (sic) Walton on p. 122 makes it clear that this is not a history of angling. 256 pp. more information

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A.J.G. Strengholt's Boeken , 1974. 1st Dutch edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/V.g. Small tear to jacket by bottom hinge, slight edge wear, internally fine. A classic of angling literature. 310, (2) pp., the music 'facing both ways' as is traditional in the 1676 edition from which this translation is taken. more information

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Oxford University Press, New York, 1988. World Classics series. Paper covers. V.g/No Jacket. Reprint of the edition of 1901 and 1935 with an introduction by John Buchan (Coigney 321); this paperback edition was edited by John Buxton, Reader Emeritus in English Literature at the University of Oxford. xxxiv, 379 pp. more information

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Oxford University Press, 1960. Third reprint of the World's Classics edition of 1935. Hard covers, no dust jacket. V.g/No Jacket. V.g., slight edge wear. Coigney no. 397; World's Classics series no. 430. This is a reprint of the 5th edition of The Compleat Angler (1676) with the addition of a modernised text of The Arte of Angling (1577), author unknown. Blue cloth with impressed OUP motif on front cover. xiv, 363 pp. more information

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A. L. Burt Company, 1905. 3rd edition of the Home Library Series. Hard covers, no dust jacket. V.g/No Jacket. Coigney 227. A very good copy. Publisher's red ribbed cloth has faded at the spine, top edge gilt, bottom edge with a small 'W' stamp in a square box, bookplate of Rees and Elizabeth Rees, no other inscriptions. Hinges almost starting, tissue guard to frontispiece intact but tanned. This edition of Walton & Cotton was edited by John Major and contains the introductory essay, the author's dedication to John Offley and his address to his readers. It is illustrated with a frontispiece based on Robinson's engraving of Isaac Walton, the woodcut of the five subjects of Walton's biography, 19 fish and a page of music. 354 pp. more information

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Martins Forlag, 1943. 1st Danish edition. Rebound in quarter calf with raised bands and gilt tooling. Fine/No Jacket. Coigney no. 348. Elegantly bound example of the first Danish edition of "The compleat angler", edited by Poul Hauton. One of the 1500 un-numbered copies (there was also a limited issue of 1000 copies which included a list of subscribers, absent from this copy). Issued to mark the 350th birthday of Izaak Walton on August 9, 1943 in a quietly subversive gesture by bibliophiles (and anglophiles?) in Nazi-occupied Denmark. Bound in quarter calf with marbled boards, all edges marbled, enclosing the original card covers with silvered fish on front and (?hand-coloured) kingfisher on rear. This is a translation of the fifth edition, and it contains many vignettes, chapter headings and illustrations (by Ib Andersen). (5), vi-xxxvii, (38), 402, (3) pp. more information

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Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1898. New edition. Blue cloth. Good/No Jacket. Coigney 186; the 6th Lowell edition. Internally a very good copy, with minimal shelf wear but with faded and slightly spotted covers. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Both tissue guards on frontispiece are intact. Attractively illustrated with the same figures as in the 1st Lowell edition (1889). lxxvi, 465 pp. more information

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Walter Scott Ltd., London, n.d. [1895]. 1st Scott edition, a reprint of the 5th edition (parts 1 & 2 only) of 1676. . Hard covers, no dust jacket. Fair/No Jacket. Has evidently been used for some serious angling; muddy water-stains at several points in the text, front hinge starting, spine worn at extremities. Still, an intact copy of Coigney no. 171, which might appeal to an extremely tolerant collector as the edition is fairly scarce in good condition. The unpaginated advertisements are present at the rear, concluding with 'Mr George Moore's New Novel'. xx, 245, (22) pp. more information

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