Author: WALTON, ISAAC [WALTON, IZAAK]; COTTON, CHARLES; HAWKINS, JOHN [ED.]
Title: The Complete [Compleat] Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation in Two Parts. Hawkins Edition
Description: London: J. Rivington at the Bible and Crown, in St . Paul's Church-Yard; T. Caslon, in Stationers Court; and R. Withy, in Cornhill, 1766. Second Hawkins Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). lvi, xxii, 303pp, xlviii, iv, iv, 128pp, [viii] + plates. Fourteen engraved plates and two engraved frontis plates; additional woodcuts within the text by Mr. Ryland. Part II dated 1760.. VG: in very good condition. Rebound with new eps and reinforcements. Book-plate on paste-down with neat ownership signature. Repairs to gutter of front and rear eps; also to fore edge of rear eps. Prelimnary pages re-attached, with some browning and edge-tearing. Lower corner of title absent. Some discolouration to lower half of text block throughout .

Keywords: Fishing 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian Cornucopia - Books for Gifts


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