Author: Walton, Izaak.
Title: THE LIVES OF Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert, and Dr Robert Sanderson: To Which are Added, The Autographs of Those Eminent Men, Now First Collected; An Index, and Illustrative Notes.
Description: London: John Major ... Printed at the Shakspeare Press by W. Nicol ..., 1825. Large paper copy 7.8 x 5 inches. xviii + 503pp. + [i]. 52 woodcuts, 11 copper plates on India paper (including frontis. chipped and foxed remounted and lightly offset). Some light browning, with the blind ownership stamp of D. Wyndham Smith to flyleaf, marbled e.ps., gilt tooled calf turn-ins, contemporary calf with delicate gilt tooling to edges of boards, some marking and minor scuffing to boards, gilt tooled compartments and raised bands rubbed with gilt lettered title label and sm. repair to head of spine, a.e.g. ¶ Coigney p. 387-88. Published to complement the same publisher's 1823 edition of The Complete Angler.

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