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Izaak Walton. The Compleat Angler. J. M. Dent & Co., London, 1896.
Price: US$99.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Splendid illustrated Dent edition of Walton's 1653 guide and meditation on fishing, Bound in green cloth with elaborate gilt decoration in the 'cranford series' style. Featuring numerous b/w illustrations by E. J. Sullivan, including a tissue guarded frontispiece, With a introduction by Andrew Lang. Top edge gilt, fore edge uncut. [lviii] 315pp. Some light rubbing and bumping to edges. previous owner's name to front-pastedown. Toning and foxing to end-papers. Tanning to page edges, otherwise clean and tight. Very good.
Seller: AJ Scruffles, Leigh On Sea, ESSEX, United Kingdom
Price: US$146.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A new edition of this celebration of the art of fishing, with an introduction from Andrew Lang and illustrations by Edmund Joseph Sullivan. New edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, thirty-nine plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. A celebration of the art and spirit of fishing written in prose and verse, reflecting the author's connection to the River Dive in central England, Stafford, and parts of London. Written by Izaak Walton, an English writer. With an introduction by Andrew Lang, a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. Illustrated by Edmund Joseph Sullivan, a British book illustrator recognised for his style which merged the British tradition of illustration from the 1860s with aspects of Art Nouveau. In the original green cloth binding with gilt decoration. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and the odd mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the head of the spine with a crack to the front joint. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. A contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Some of the textblock remains unopened. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. Dent, J.M., 1896.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with gilt illustration and lettering. Title page dated 1896. No copyright page. 317 pages. Corners bumped. Light rubbing to cover. Pages toned but clean. Binding intact but feels a little loose. Writing on front end page. Has deckled page edges, some uncut pages. This edition also features an introduction by Andrew Lang and illustrations by E.J. Sullivan.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A new edition with introduction and illustration. Full morocco with 2 raised bands and decoration in blind and gilt, cover hsows minro wear and rubbing, fading on the spine, small crack at the crown of the spine. Beautiful turn-ins with decoration in red and gilt, vignette doublures on both pastedowns with gilt tooling (an almost Jansenist-style with the simple outside case). Chemical marbling to the free endpapers with some offsetting around the edges. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. A beautiful edition in a unique binding with many illustrations.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.