The complete angler; : or, The contemplative man's recreation. / By Izaak Walton. Being a fac-simile reprint of the first edition, published in 1653.
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
Category
Books
Date
circa 1876
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dorneywood House and Gardens, Buckinghamshire
NT 3224175
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, [16], 246 p. ill., music. 8vo (18 cm). Former shelfmark: D-1-31(b) $zProvenance: Armorial bookplate signed H.J.F. Badeley 1945: Courtauld-Thomson Dorneywood with motto: Fortiter aut suaviter. [i.e. Lord Courtauld-Thomson (1865-1954)]; black ink stamp: The National Trust founded 1895. Binding: nineteenth-century polished sheep over boards on three recessed cords but five false raised bands, single gilt fillet and foliage tool on spine, red spine label, single blind fillet on covers, gilt rolls on board edges and inners, gilt edges.
Makers and roles
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)