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Price: US$375.25 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Former Reference Library copy - Usual stamps and markings. A Lovely inscription to fep from a Parent describing their childs joy and wonder he got from his book in what seems to be in his last few days. Boards have edge and corner wear, bumped corners, rubbing along spine causing a little loss, fading, discolouration, marks and scratches. Top, Tail and Fore edge tanned, Fore and Tail edges with rough cut edge. Internally pages have discolouration, tanning, odd marks and edge wear, a few pages are a little worn along fore edge. A Good copy for a Book of this Age. **393g** All orders are sent with a tracking /signature service for your peace of mind, so that you can keep tabs on your parcel. For overseas customers - on some sites we use, parcels weighing over the standard rate may incur an additional charge and we will then contact you with the additional shipping fee required. This is for the postage only we do not charge you for our time or our excellent packaging, which we are noted for. Dispatched in cardboard mailers within 24/48 Hours Mon - Friday 2pm, except bank holidays, otherwise next business day - excellent service guaranteed. AANBE16233
Seller: Nugget Box (PBFA), Stafford, United Kingdom
Price: US$381.61 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 120 pp. Illustrated throughout with hand-coloured wood engravings. Book Condition: Good. Blue paper-covered boards over parchment spine with gilt titles. Edges uncut. Boards rubbed with wear to edges, bump to foredge and minor stains; spine heavily soiled. Inner hinges repaired with white paper tape; toning to endpapers and title page. Ownership label of Alan John Jarvis to front pastedown & pencilled Library note to ffep; a little sporadic foxing & fingermarking to margins. Text and illustrations very bright with characteristic Crawhall hand-coloured woodcuts to almost every page.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue paper covered boards, ivory spine with gilt title. 8vo. 120pp edges uncut. Rubbing and chipping of top paper/edges, toning to end papers and title page. No signs of previous ownership. Extracts of songs and poetry from Walton's Compleat Angler profusely illustrated with Crawhall's distinctive hand colored wood cuts.
Seller: Abacus Books, ABAA/ILAB, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Poems and songs taken from Walton's Angler, and richly illustrated with Joseph Crawhall's charming hand-colored woodcuts throughout. With labeled linen pockets -- Baccy, Lynes, Fysshe Tales, etc. with the largest being "Fysshe Tales I don't believe. There is some separation to the edges of the pockets. 120 pp. followed by 24 blank leaves labeled "Fyshhe Stories". In half-vellum over gilt-stamped parchment. There is a previous owner name to the title page. The spine has been patched at the extremities; lacking the ties. Good binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$572.41 + shipping
Description: Pp. 119 [1] catalogue, plus 24 blank ruled leaves entitled 'Fysshe Stories' to rear. Hand-coloured woodcut illustrations by the author throughout. Two-tone pictorial vellum with gilt titles; gilt stamped fish images to spine & upper board with angling scene to lower board. Labelled linen pockets to pastedowns for "Baccy, Lynes, Fysshe Tales I believe, Hookes & I's, More Baccy" etc to front and large linen pocket to rear for "Fysshe Stories I don't believe." Uncut. Unusually this copy has retained the linen ties. Covers lightly soiled with creasing and staining to spine. A little minor toning otherwise contents clean & bright. Abridged edition of The Compleate Angler with 36 songs and poems taken from the fifth edition. Arguably Crawhall's most ambitious work and certainly the most inimitable. A very good copy
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Price: US$579.33 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: "Adorned with sculptures curiously engraven by Joseph Crawhall". Labelled linen pockets to e/p's. Vellum and parchment boards. Some separation at the joins. Boards are bowed. Some soiling to the boards. Spine is missing but binding is tight and ties are present. Some age discolouration to contents and to rough cut page edges. 24 blank ruled leaves entitled 'Fysshe Stories' to rear. Poems and songs taken from Walton's Angler, and richly illustrated with Joseph Crawhall's charming hand-colored woodcuts throughout.
Seller: Arty Bees Books, Wellington, New Zealand
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First trade edition. Unpaginated, 24 blank ruled leaves entitled 'Fysshe Stories' to rear. Publisher's full stiff vellum with gilt stamped vignette and lettering.Original printed cloth wallets of cloth on front pastedown, as issued. Ties present, though broken. Very Good with light soiling to vellum and small stain to vellum at front, boards bowed, some lifting along seams, reading smudges to contents. An abridged version of The Compleat Angler, includes Crawhall's woodcut illustrations, hand-colored.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$760.67 + shipping
Description: 119 (i) pages plus 24 blank ruled leaves entitled 'Fysshe Stories' to rear. Hand-coloured woodcut illustrations by the author throughout pages uncut. Labelled linen pockets to pastedowns for "Baccy, Lynes, Fysshe Tales I believe, Hookes & I's, More Baccy" etc to front, and large linen pocket to rear for "Fysshe Stories I don't believe." Some spotting to the pockets. Vellum spine and corners, gilt-stamped parchment sides with gilt title and fish vignette s to upper board with angling scene to lower board, with the original ties. some darkening to the boards with creasing to spine. 36 songs and poems and posies extracted from the fifth edition of Walton's Angler of (1676). As Coigney 126 limited edition measures 9 5/16 x 6 3/8 which is the size of the large paper edition of 100 copies which is usually numbered to verso of the title page with statement. This copy has light abrasion to the paper of the verso of the title page to lower inner bottom edge possible where limitation was removed?
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$1097.35 + shipping
Description: 112 S., 4 Bll. und 24 Bll. unbedruckt für "Fysshe Stories", im vorderen Innendeckel eingebunden kleine Leinenbeutel "Hara", "Baccy", "Fysshe Tales I believe", "Tyme Flies" und im hinteren Innendeckel Leinenbeutel, durchgehend mit handkolorierten Holzschnitten und Vignetten von Joseph Crawhall, Orig.-Pergamentband mit Schließband. Eines von 100 nummerierten Exemplaren auf "Large Paper" signiert von den Verlegern Field und Tuer.- Auf Titel Widmung von Hugh Crawhall "With the Compliments of Season January 1. 1904.".- Rücken mit neuem Pergament versehen, der bedruckte Rücken liegt als "Lesezeichen" bei. Einband etwas angestaubt und fleckig.
Seller: Dieter Eckert, Bremen, Germany
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, limited "large paper" edition of 100 copies, of which this is number 12, signed by the publishers on the copyright page. Large octavo. Unpaginated, 24 blank ruled leaves entitled 'Fysshe Stories' to rear. Publisher's full stiff vellum with gilt stamped vignette and lettering. Lacking ties. Original printed cloth wallets of cloth on front pastedown, as issued. Very Good+ with light soiling and foxing to vellum, boards slightly bowed, a few pages reinforced along gutter and bookplate of Dean Sage (noted book collector and sportsman) to foot of title page. An abridged edition of The Compleat Angler, including Crawhall's woodcut illustrations, hand-colored.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1602.75 + shipping
Description: 200mm x 120mm (8" x 5"). 120pp, [xxxxviii]. Numerous hand coloured wood engravings. Signed and dedicated to Betty Scott, a Cullercoats Fish-wife. G: in good condition. Cover rubbed and soiled. Slight loss to spine Cream hardback vellum cover with cotton ties
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$3245.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition and one of only 100 Large-Paper Copies of a total edition of only 600 copies. SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND SPECIALLY BOUND, MOST PROBABLY FOR PRESENTATION. With a profusion of hand-colored woodcut plates after Joseph Crawhall, in chapbook style, and with bound-in cloth pockets labeled in black. 8vo, in very beautiful contemporary full red-orange calf, likely a binding for presentation purposes, the boards are elaborately decorated with a very wide and exquisitly detailed borders of stylized thistles, the spine with central gilt tooling gilt, depicting fish and tackle bags within double-gilt ruled compartments separated by gilt ruled raised bands, two compartments with gilt lettering, board edges and turn-ins gilt tooled in floral motif, page edges untrimmed, green endpapers. 112, [8], pp. A very handsome copy of an especially elusive book, lavishly bound, likely a presentation copy and unique thus, the binding well preserved and sturdy with some light evidence of age or use, some general mellowing, the text retains the original pockets and black leaves, all as pristine. A bit of mild offsetting from the cloth pockets. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF CRAWHALL'S FINEST PRODUCTIONS IN ITS BEST AND MOST LIMITED FORMAT. This abridged edition of THE COMPLEAT ANGLER contains 36 songs and poems taken from the text of the fifth edition. The prospectus promises that this collection will 'rank amongst the quaintest and most covetable,' and we have to agree. The book includes small cloth pockets for the owner's own use. They have whimsicle labels such as "Fysshe Tales I believe" (a very small one) and (the much larger) "Fysshe Tales I don't believe". Also for the owner's personal use are 24 blank ruled leaves entitled 'Fysshe Stories' bound in at the rear for the owner to write in his own stories. These leaves are un-used.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.