The compleat angler . or The contemplative man's recreation By Izaak Walton Illustrated by Ernest Townsend.
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
Category
Books
Date
1940
Materials
bookcloth, paper
Measurements
209 x 141 mm; 25 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
United States
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3093756
Summary
Bibliographic description
xviii,237p. . ill..,music . 21cm.. Provenance: Manuscript inscription to Sir Charles Trevelyan: 'In appreciation of your visit and of many years over which you have influenced me, unknown to yourself. Best wishes [illegible] Nov. 16. [40?]' Nineteenth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Publisher's cloth with embossed cameo centrepiece representing Guthenberg.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683) Ernest Townsend (Derby 1880 - Derby 1944)