The complete angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton / extensively embellished with engravings on copper and wood ... To which are added an introductory essay, the Linnaean arrangement of the various river-fish ... and illustrative notes. Vol. I[-III].

Accession number: 
PML 150927
Author: 
Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.
Published: 
London : John Major ..., 1823.
Description: 
411, p. : ill., music, ports. ; 21 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes: 

Includes index.
Large paper edition.
Extra-illustrated with additional engravings, a second set of the wood engravings on india paper and 57 watercolors of portraits, done by George Harding. See Irwin catalogue.
Edited by R. Thomson, with an introductory essay by John Major.
Pt. 2 by Charles Cotton, has special t.p.: The complete angler : being instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream.
"Printed at the Shakspeare Press, by. W. Nicol ..."--Verso of t.p.
Large paper copy with the plates on Japanese paper. 14 full-page engravings, 77 woodcuts in the text.

Binding: 
Full green morocco binding by Gosden with Grolieresque deisgn. In a green folding case.
Provenance: 
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
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