Author:
WALTON Izaak
Title:
The Compleat Angler
Price:
£240.00
Year:
1760
Edition:
1st Hawkins Edn,
Publisher:
Thomas
Summary:
lvi + xxii + 303 + xlviii + iv + 128 pages, + index, All edges gilt frontis illustration to each part and full page and text engravings including 2 pages of music and 3 of fishing tackle. Occasional offsetting and browning, bound in near contemporary half leather gilt tooling to the raised bands marbled paper covered boards some surface rubbing and chipping. A very good copy Hawkins reproduced the two parts of the 1676 edition ignoring most of Moses Brownes changes, and he disagreed with Brownes editing. Coigney 9
Ref:
23974
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