The Complete Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation
by Isaak Walton
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
About this Item: Elliot Stock, London, 1876. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Complete Angler or the contemplative Man's recreation, being a discourse of fish and fishing not unworthy the perusal of most anglers. This being a reprint of the first edition published in 1653. Book has a very clean binding with gilt spine lettering. Book is bound in velum with decorations. All edges are untrimmed and tightly bound. Book is a former library Book, which is unmarked. The first free end paper and last free end paper are heavily tanned and discolored. There are the usual library envelopes on the paste-downs. That being said, this is a very nice collectible and a copy of The Complete Angler belongs in any good library.
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- Bookseller
- Oshtemo Book Sellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7423
- Title
- The Complete Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation
- Author
- Isaak Walton
- Format/Binding
- Bound in velum with red rules and gilt label
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Elliot Stock
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1876
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fac-simile reprint of the first edition published in 1653
- Size
- 12mo.
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...