THE COMPLETE ANGLER by WALTON, Isaac, and Charles Cotton

The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton Embellished with many Engravings from Paintings and Drawings, Walton, Isaac and Charles Cotton. Published by Methuen & Co., London, 1903. New Edition. The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books. A facsimile of the second edition published by John Major in 1824. 16mo up to 6½" tall. 416 pp. with a small spine label bound-in between final text page and free endpaper. Red cloth boards with paper title block to spine. Boards have general wear with a tiny worm hole midway along outside spine joint affecting inner hinge with a tiny loss of paper. Contents are in generally fine condition with browning to free endpapers front and back with some transfer to pastedowns. The Complete (Compleat) Angler was first published in 1653 and remains enduringly popular with 1,097 editions published between 1653 and 2019 in 9 languages.

James Smith, 1822. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1822. 388 pages. Half bound leather with marbled paper covered boards. Front board is detached but still present. Book divided in two parts. First part written by Isaac Walton. Second part written by Charles Cotton. Advertisements to front. Presumed Ninth edition. Book has been rebound. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Severe cracking to rear hinge causing board to be loose. First few pages up to page VI are loose. Pages are moderately tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Paper remnants with glue markings to front endpaper and hinge. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Plates are moderately tanned and foxed. Occasional water staining. Faint black marks throughout. Text remains legible. Occasional chipping to edges. Boards have heavy edge wear with corner bumping. Leather peeling heavily to all surfaces, with loss to corners and spine ends. Large split to rear joint. Visible scuffing and markings to boards. Glue marks to front.

(London: Printed for William Cole: n.d.) [It is believed that William Cole operated approx 1820 to 1830] An owner's name and date 1832 at head of title-page. Cl. lettered in gilt on spine (apparently a later binding) pp. xx, 314 (170 x 105 x about 26 mm thick). Embellished with Portraits of the Authors and Engravings of the River-fish described in the Work. An owner's name label on fixed front endpaper. Some light marking or stains to covers; internally near fine; overall very good copy

London William Cole C, 1828-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Missing spine cover brown boards privaleyly printed for william cole emblessed with portraits

Chatto & Windus. Good+. 1875. Hard Cover. Some scuffing and edge wear on spine and boards, small stain on rear board near spine. Front inner hinge is starting to crack but binding is tight. An attractive book. .

William Cole Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. No date but circa 1830. In red half-leather and marbled boards. Wear to corners and fading to leather on spine. 314 pages. Hinges are sound.

HBDJ, VG+/VG, WITH SCUFF RUB TINY CHIPS TO DJ EXTREMITIES ,1962. 1st Edition , EARLY ISSUE REPRINT , SMALL LAVENDER RED with Copper gilt on Spine CvrHardcover, LARGER FORMAT. 215, 8 Pp ADS.. Illustrated dust jacket over pink cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout and visible tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and book is forward leaning. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. Notable sunning to spine and sunning to interior. TINY EDGe CREASES & back of DJ says few 500 AUTHORS ,INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET BOTTRALL, NOT ILLUSTRATED, GOLD & WHITE EL ENDPAPERS , PINK B/W Illustrated Dustjacket BY BIRO of 2 Fishing FROM WATERS BANK & BASKET OF LARGE FISH, COMMENTS ON Ancient & Modern Practice of Fishing. TREASTISE ON ANGLING. ENSURES HIS LITERARY IMMORTALITY. IT INSTRUCTS AMUSES MEDIFIES, work begins with Londoners making a fishing trip up the Lea Valley in Hertfordshire, starting… Read More

New York: John Wiley, 1848. Reprint of 1848. Very good in rebacked 1/2 red leather and it's original, blind embossed, red cloth covered boards with five gilt rules on the spine with no text to identify the title. A 12mo of 7 1/4 by 5 inches with a Brooklyn (New York?) address written on the front paste down and an early prior owner's name and date (1849) written in pencil on both the first and second free end pages and a penciled quotation written at the top of the fly title page. There are a few inconsequential marginal dampness stains with the body of the text block. Pasted to the bottom of page 53 is a short newspaper notice of a 3 pound 7 oz. Long Island trout having been caught with a penciled date of March 20, 1851. Page 60 is missing the print for approximately 20% of the page a problem caused during the printing process which was not caught before binding. The contents are largely free of foxing and tanning. Part I is contained within pages 1 to 249 and is preceded by a… Read More

1808. Printed For Samuel Bagster. London. 1808. The Seventh Edition, With Improvements and Additions, both of Matter and Plates. 512 pages. Portrait frontis., extra vignette title page, 16 engraved plates. Bound in early 19th century half brown calf, professionally rebacked. Corners of rear board very worn. Marbled boards. Early 19th century ownership inscriptions. Occasional foxing and browning to pages otherwise a clean and sound copy.

London: Printed for Samuel Bagster (Printed by Mercier & Co.), 1808. First Bagster edition. 8vo. (4), vi, [7]-61, [lxii]-lxvi, 67-344, [347]-499, [500-501], 502-512, (2, Bagster ad leaf) pp. 32 engravings, including 17 copper engravings of fish, portraits, plates. Coigney 17. Somewhat later green cloth-backed drab boards (spine ends a little worn, corners and edges bumped), gilt spine title. Very good copy.