Lot 120
  • 120

Walton, Izaak

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish & Fishing. London: R[ichard] Marriot, 1668
  • Paper, ink, leather
8vo (5 3 /4 x 3 1/2 in.; 145 x 90 mm). Upper portion of title surrounded by engravings of dolphin and pendant fish, ten small copperplates by Pierre Lombart in text of various species including trout, carp, pike and eel, two pages of engraved music; small rust hole to one leaf. Contemporary gilt-paneled black morocco, red morocco label; very minor rubbing.

Provenance

Robert S. Pirie (bookplate to front pastedown, Sotheby's New York, 3-4 December 2015, lot 829)

Literature

Wing W 665; ESTC R226664; Coigney 5; Westwood & Satchell, p. 219

Catalogue Note

A corrected reprint of the 1661 edition and the last edition before the addition of Charles Cotton's contributions of angling instructions, here is a very handsome contemporary binding. Robert S. Pirie copy.