Lot 117
  • 117

Walton, Izaak, and Charles Cotton

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation...With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas. London: William Pickering, 1836
  • Paper, ink, leather
2 volumes, 4to (10 5/8 x 7 1/8 in.; 269 x 180 mm). Engraved titles, titles in red and black, profusely illustrated with engravings after Stothard and Inskipp including many full page, plates and vignettes on mounted India paper; one or two stray spots. Full green morocco, covers elaborately bordered and pictorially stamped in gilt, spines with raised bands in six compartments, gilt titles and text in second, third, and fourth, others with elaborate repeat gilt floral and piscatorial motifs, all edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers; one or two nicks to morocco, some minor shelfwear.

Literature

Coigney 44; Horne 43; Oliver 41

Condition

2 volumes, 4to (10 5/8 x 7 1/8 in.; 269 x 180 mm). Engraved titles, titles in red and black, profusely illustrated with engravings after Stothard and Inskipp including many full page, plates and vignettes on mounted India paper; one or two stray spots. Full green morocco, covers elaborately bordered and pictorially stamped in gilt, spines with raised bands in six compartments, gilt titles and text in second, third, and fourth, others with elaborate repeat gilt floral and piscatorial motifs, all edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers; one or two nicks to morocco, some minor shelfwear.
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Catalogue Note

First Nicolas edition. One of the finest illustrated editions of Walton ever produced.