Accession number
PML 7640
Creator
Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.
Published
London : Thomas Gosden ..., 1825.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
T.p. for pt. 2 (p. [245]) has imprint: London: Printed for James Smith ..., 1822.
Probably the sheets of Smith's 1822 ed. (printed by W. Lewis), with a new t.p. and plates.
"Advertisement to the ninth edition," pp. [iii]-vi. "Advertisement to the sixth edition pubished by John Sidney Hawkins, Esq., 1797," p. [vii].
Some plates have imprint: London: Published by T. Gosden .... Eighteen are proofs.
This is probably not a separate ed., but Hawkins 9th, with extra illustrations and binding by Thomas Gosden, a binder and publisher of sporting books.
Library copy lacks blank leaf, p. [269-270].
B⁷ Walton and Cotton.
Probably the sheets of Smith's 1822 ed. (printed by W. Lewis), with a new t.p. and plates.
"Advertisement to the ninth edition," pp. [iii]-vi. "Advertisement to the sixth edition pubished by John Sidney Hawkins, Esq., 1797," p. [vii].
Some plates have imprint: London: Published by T. Gosden .... Eighteen are proofs.
This is probably not a separate ed., but Hawkins 9th, with extra illustrations and binding by Thomas Gosden, a binder and publisher of sporting books.
Library copy lacks blank leaf, p. [269-270].
B⁷ Walton and Cotton.
Description
lx, 383 p., [57] leaves of plates : ill., facs., ports. ; 20 cm
Provenance
Formerly owned by (Thomas) Bennett, Cecil Dunn-Gardner, Theodore Irwin (see ms notes on fly leaves). Sold in the Bennett sale at Sotheby's, 1858 and in the Cecil Dunn Gardner sale, 1880.
Binding
Green morocco over bevelled boards, with bronze bosses and medallions, by Thomas Gosden (lacking bosses on back cover). In PML case.
Classification
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