The complete angler; : or, contemplative man's recreation: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts: / the first written by Mr. Isaac Walton; the second by Charles Cotton, Esq. With lives of the authors: and notes, historical, critical, supplementary and explanatory; by Sir John Hawkins, Knt.
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
Category
Books
Date
1808
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3078380
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], vi, 7-512, [2] p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Imperfect: wanting final advertisement leaf. Extra illustrated. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "13 Extra plates inserted". Bookseller's erased pencil notes on front free endpaper verso: "271", "m/sd/-", "L.P." and "3/3/". Provenance: Pencil initial and date on front free endpaper verso: "F / 1934" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full straight-grained brown morocco; double gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine: gilt stamped angling paraphernalia and fishing basket in alternate spine compartments; red morocco spine label, gilt lettered: 'The complete angler'; green morocco spine label, gilt lettered: 'Walton and Cotton'; gilt edge rolled; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf'
Makers and roles
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683), author Charles Cotton (1630 - 1687), author Sir John Hawkins (1719-1789), author