Accession number:
PML 252657
Published:
London : William Pickering, 1825.
Description:
xvi, 314, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, music ; 92 mm
Credit:
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.
Binding:
Silver binding over illustrated portrait of Izaak Walton on front cover and Charles Cotton on rear cover, edges stained silver.
Provenance:
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
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