Accession number:
PML 142630
Published:
London : D. Bogue, Fleet-Street ; H. Wix, New Bridge-Street, 1844.
Description:
lx, 418 p. [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Edited by R. Thomson with introduction by John Major. cf. Bibliotheca Piscatoria, Westwood, 1966.
Illustrated with 12 steel engravings, including portraits of Walton and Cotton, a facsimile of the t.p. of the 1st ed. of 1653, and 9 engravings by J.T. Willmore after original designs John Absolon; with numerous wood engraved illustrations within the text executed by John and Mason Jackson after various artists.
"Printed by William Nicol, Shakepeare Press, 60, Pall Mall."--Colophon.
Binding:
Green morocco tooled in gilt by Clarke & Bedford.
Variant Title:
Contemplative man's recreation
Provenance:
Bookplate of Robert Hoe; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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