Author: WALTON, IZAAK AND CHARLES COTTON
Title: The Complete Angler
Description: London: Henry Washbourne, 1842.. or Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing. With Notes biographies and explanatiory and the Lives of the Authors 396 pages with 15 copper-engraved plates, including a potrait of Walton. 76 woodcut vignettes and head or tail pieces, index HARDCOVER: (Orig. half leather binding (some wear to spine ends) with very rich gold decoration on spine. Nice bookplate of Philip Beaumont Frere. VERY GOOD) ¶ RARE AND SOUGHT AFTER first edition of Walton's famous work.With nice bookplate of former owner Philip Beaumont Frere, a well-known book collector, who for a time he owned copy 45 of the Gutenberg Bible.

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