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. Izaak Walton, the second by Charles Cotton, Esq; To which are now prefixed, the lives of the authors. Illustrated with cuts ... And notes ...
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
Category
Books
Date
1760
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3082423
Summary
Bibliographic description
lvi,xxii,303,[1],xlviii,iv,ii,iv,128,[8]p.,plates . ill..,port..,engr.music . 8vo.. Accession no. 4508. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: S. Prince (sale cutting, 11 December 1865, lot 1029). Round seal bookplate: "L. C. Berger", with the motto "Dominie da Mihi Scientiam", probably late nineteenth century. Binding: early nineteenth-century English straight grain green morocco; blind- and gold-tooled fillets; gold-tooled spine, lettered directly. Place and date at foot of spine. Gilt edges, light brown endleaves.
Makers and roles
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683), author Charles Cotton (1630 - 1687) Sir John Hawkins (1719-1789)