The Complete Angler of Izakk Walton and Charles Cotton Pub: John Major, Fleet-Street, adjoining Serjeant's-Inn, 1823

The Complete Angler of Izakk Walton and Charles Cotton:
Extensively Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood,
From original paintings and drawings, by First-Rate Artists.
To Which Are Added, An Introductory Essay;
The Linnaean Arrangement of the
Various River-Fish Delineated in the Work;
and Illustrative Notes.


Pub: John Major, Fleet-Street, adjoining Serjeant's-Inn, 1823. First Major Edition, Large Paper, with a copper-engraved portrait frontispiece mounted on India Paper, engraved title-vignette, 13 fine copper-engraved plates (including 2 of music scores - The Angler's Song and Hermit Poor) all mounted on India Paper, and 77 woodcut illustrations and decorations in the text. The first Major edition is based on the fifth edition of 1676, the last published during Walton's lifetime, and printed by Nicol at the Shakespeare Press. Major's typically extensive notes occupy pp.395-406.

Gilt edges. Back cover is detatched and front is loose with a bad tape repair. This was privatley bound at one point with 2 custom bookplates on inside, front cover. Pencil notes on fly leaves. Light foxing and typical ghosting of plates.

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