Author:
WALTON Izaak
Title:
The Compleat Angler
Price:
£120.00
Year:
1883
Edition:
The Nimmo and Bain Edn,
Publisher:
J.C.B.Nimmo and Bain
Summary:
xv 445 pages, TEG, illustrations consist of 8 etchings with two impressions of each oone on India paper + 74 text woodcuts on India paper, publishers blue green cloth, gilt Walton cartouche to upper board, gilt title and 3 fish vignette to spine with date to bottom of spine, head and tail of spine chipped and pulled, lower front outer corner rubbed through cloth. Coigney 118 does not note this binding, nor Oliver 114, it corresponds to the 1/4 parchment which Coigney mentions Martsons supplement to Bibliotheca Piscatorial notes 8vo 31s 6d and crown 8vo 8s 6d, the parchment and this cloth edition are identical and size. Coigney notes a full calf bound copy by Tilt which he assumes is the expensive issue, whether this is so is open to question possibly this or the parchment copy is.
Ref:
18264
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