Author: Walton, Izaak
Title: The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers
Description: London, A & C Black, 1978. First printing of this edition. Hardcover. Facsimile of the first edition of 1653. 12mo (148 x 92mm). Pp 246 with a number of b&w illustrations in the text. Full brown leather with unstamped spine. All edges speckled red. "The best of the facsimiles of the first edition. reprinted from the copy in the Grenville Collection at the British Museum." (Coigney). A reprint of the First Black Facsimile of 1928 (Coigney 298). A clean, unmarked copy in a printed slipcase. Very good + .

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