The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation ... In Two Parts ... With The Lives of the Authors, and Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. By Sir John Hawkins by Walton, Izaac - 1784

London: John C. Nimmo, 1889. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First thus, original decorated green cloth hardcover, illustrated throughout, 445 pages, internally clean but sadly cloth marked hence good only. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 329.

Halifax : Milner & Sowerby, 1857. Hardcover. Good. Original blind stamped and gilt red cloth, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.; Edges and corners cover slightly worn.

John C. Nimmo, London, 1896. 8vo, pp. xv, i, 445. Index. Seven full page illustrations, portrait, and seventy-four wod engravings. Uncut, some spotting to prelims. One or two spots on boards, else very good in pictorial decorated hardcover. One of the classic Angling works.

Halifax, Yorkshire: Milner and Sowerby, 1857. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 336pp, several black and white engravings including a frontispiece. Purple cloth-covered boards with gilt design and title on spine (somewhat faded) and blind embossed decorations on boards. Spine rubbed at ends and cloth worn through in places where spine cover meets boards. Corners rounded. Pages slightly tanned, some faint pencil marks on front paste-down. 12mo

London: Chatto & Windus, 1875. Third Nicolas Edition. Portrait frontispiece, engraved additional title, numerous plates and illustrations after Stothard and Inskipp. cci, 202-205, [i], , [ii], 320, 40, ads.pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth, with spine neatly laid down. Third Nicolas Edition. Portrait frontispiece, engraved additional title, numerous plates and illustrations after Stothard and Inskipp. cci, 202-205, [i], , [ii], 320, 40, ads.pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A compact, pleasing edition, with the illustrations of the first Nicolas edition (1836), here printed all on separate leaves. Coigney 95; Westwood & Satchell, p. 235

London: Samuel Bagster, 1815. The Second Bagster Edition, LARGE PAPER COPY. Illustrated with 50 engravings, including frontispiece portraits of Walton and Cotton, 8 full-page copperplate engravings by Audinet after Wale; 6 plates by George Greig after John Linnell, 2 plates of fishing tackle and music; numerous text engravings. 514, [20, index] pp. Printed by R. Watts, Broxbourne. Bound without advertisements. 1 vols. 8vo (9-1/8 x 5-5/8). Contemporary calf, early rebacking with angling motifs to spine. Some light spotting and foxing throughout, some offsetting from plates. Bookplate. Very good. The Second Bagster Edition, LARGE PAPER COPY. Illustrated with 50 engravings, including frontispiece portraits of Walton and Cotton, 8 full-page copperplate engravings by Audinet after Wale; 6 plates by George Greig after John Linnell, 2 plates of fishing tackle and music; numerous text engravings. 514, [20, index] pp. Printed by R. Watts, Broxbourne. Bound without advertisements. 1 vols. 8vo (9-1/8 x 5-5/8).… Read More

London. William Pickering. 1836. Hardcover. sm4to, 27cm, in 2 volumes, [16],ccxii,[2],129 & [2],[131]-436,[32]pp., with 61 steel engraved plates and text illustrations, (including engraved title-pages, 48 engraved plates, two pages of music and two woodcuts of the Walton seal, 9 head-pieces, and 2 portraits of Walton), in the original dark green crushed morocco, wide raised bands with gilt borders, full gilt decorations in the panels, gilt titles, elaborate gilt corner decorations on the boards, triple gilt ruled inner dentelles, all edges gilt, expertly rebacked, a fine set. One of the finest illustrated editions of Walton ever published. Pickering employed 27 of the most prominent artist, painters, and engravers to illustrate it.

London: Samuel Bagster, 1815. A Superb Early Twentieth Century 'Cosway' Binding by Rivière & Son [COSWAY BINDING]. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. WALTON, Izaac. COTTON, Charles. The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, and Fishing. In two parts. London: Samuel Bagster, 1815. Second Bagster Edition. Octavo (8 13/16 x 5 5/8 inches; 224 x 143 mm.). [xi] 12-514 (including seventeen-page appendix), [20 index] pp. Fifteen full-page plates; eight after Wale, two music plates, two of fishing tackle, the cartouche of the title-page of the 1653 first edition on half-title, all engraved by Philip Audinet; a portrait of Walton after Huysmans engraved by C. Hayter; a portrait of Cotton after Lely engraved by J. Linnell. In addition there are seventeen silver engravings of fish; a map of the River Lea and one of the River Dove; a facsimile of Walton's autograph and one of Cotton's; and seven engravings in the text, all by Audinet. There are six engravings in… Read More