Accession number:
PML 7640
Published:
London : Thomas Gosden ..., 1825.
Description:
lx, 383 p., [57] leaves of plates : ill., facs., ports. ; 20 cm
Credit:
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.
Binding:
Green morocco over bevelled boards, with bronze bosses and medallions, by Thomas Gosden (lacking bosses on back cover). In PML case.
Variant Title:
Complete angler
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.
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