Accession number
PML 252657
Creator
Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.
Published
London : William Pickering, 1825.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Added title page engraved, included in pagination; signed, as is frontispiece: "T. Stothard ... Aug. Fox sc."
Part II has separate title page: The complete angler ... being instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling, in a clear stream ...
"The first Pickering edition" and series. Cf. Wood, Oliver, Horne. "Pickering's miniature edition:" Grolier Club handlist.
"Thomas White, Printer"--Title page verso.
Biographical notices of Walton and Cotton (pages [v]-ix).
Words and music of: The angler's song / by H. Lawes (page [185]).
Library's copy housed in green cloth clamshell box.
Part II has separate title page: The complete angler ... being instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling, in a clear stream ...
"The first Pickering edition" and series. Cf. Wood, Oliver, Horne. "Pickering's miniature edition:" Grolier Club handlist.
"Thomas White, Printer"--Title page verso.
Biographical notices of Walton and Cotton (pages [v]-ix).
Words and music of: The angler's song / by H. Lawes (page [185]).
Library's copy housed in green cloth clamshell box.
Description
xvi, 314, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, music ; 92 mm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Silver binding over illustrated portrait of Izaak Walton on front cover and Charles Cotton on rear cover, edges stained silver.
Classification
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