Compleat angler
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
Category
Books
Date
1823
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3103305
Summary
Bibliographic description
lx,411,[5]p., [14] plates : ill., ports., music ; 8vo. Imperfect: wants titlepage. Copious annotation in ink on opening endpapers, final page, pp. 70-72. In absence of titlepage, refers to new edition of 1819, but first issue of Major's edition, 1823; front. port. dated 1822. Cutting with publisher's advertisement and blurb affixed to pastedown. Provenance: no further ownership marks. Binding: nineteenth-century grained red leather, blind embossed; four false bands; directly gilt lettered: Walton & Cotton's Angler. London 1823.
Makers and roles
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683), author Charles Cotton (1630 - 1687) John Major (1782-1849)