WALTON, IZAAK, AND CHARLES COTTON

A finely bound first Nicholas Edition of one of the finest illustrated editions of Walton's seminal text of Western Angling literature.

• Sold as a set of 2.
• Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton (English).
• The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation Being a Discourse of the Rivers Fish-ponds Fish and Fishing Written by Izaac Walton and Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in Clear Stream by Charles Cotton with Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas K. C. M. G..
• Engraved title page plus 48 engraved plates, two pages of music and two woodcuts of the Walton seal, 9 head-pieces, and 2 portraits of Walton. 
• Pickering employed 27 of the most prominent artists, painters, and engravers to illustrate it.
• London: William Pickering, 1836.
• Quarto.
• Full black straight-grain morocco, boards with triple gilt fillet border about a scrollwork border, the scrollwork repeated in blind, gilt lettered and paneled spine with angling motifs, dentelles gilt, a.e.g. by Rivière & Son.
• Expertly rebacked in an attractive Rivière & Son binding.

Coigney 44.