THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. In Two Parts: The First Written by Mr. Isaac Walton; The Second by Charles Cotton, Esq. With The Lives of the Authors: And Notes, Historical, Critical, Supplementary and Explanatory;by Sir John Hawkins
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. In Two Parts: The First Written by Mr. Isaac Walton; The Second by Charles Cotton, Esq. With The Lives of the Authors: And Notes, Historical, Critical, Supplementary and Explanatory;by Sir John Hawkins
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1808
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Walton
- Publishers
- for Samuel Bagster, In the Strand
- Edition
- THE FIRST BAGSTER EDITION IN A GOSDEN BINDING. The Bagster
- First edition
- True
Description
The First Bagster Edition. Vignette half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 17 illustrations of fish within the text, 15 full page engraved plates in black and white, 2 pages of engraved music, some additional wood cuts in the text. 8vo, bound in a Gosden binding of full contemporary speckled calf, the covers with double gilt fillet rules at the borders surrounding a fish in gilt at the center of the covers, the spine with raised bands gilt stopped, compartments tooled in gilt, lettered in gilt in one compartment on a black morocco label, marbled endleaves. vi, 512 pp. A very good copy with some mild rubbing to the extremities, the binding is strong, the text-block and illustrations are clean and well preserved.
