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
Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
NT 3082424
Summary
Bibliographic description
lvi,xxii,303,[1],xlviii,iv,ii,iv,128,[8]p.,plates : ill., port., music ; 8vo. With half a page of manuscript notes in a probable eighteenth-century hand on titlepage verso. Press clipping: "Letter to Lord Byron" (Dec. 26 1823) pasted onto front pastedown; cutting from Sotheran's catalogue (1903) on back pastedown, with pencil note on price of '8 guineas', Nov. 1903. Provenance: inscribed: "T. S. Vernon" [i.e. Thomas Shrawley Vernon (1759-1825)]; nineteenth century round seal bookplate: "Arms of Harry Foley Vernon" [i.e. Sir Harry Foley Vernon (1834-1920); also inscribed on endpaper H.F. Veron 1854. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double gilt fillet border; five raised bands; gilt on spine; spine label perhaps later.
Makers and roles
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683) Charles Cotton (1630 - 1687) Sir John Hawkins (1719-1789)