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Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good. Hardcovers, 2 volumes, light green cloth over boards with white cloth backstrips, gilt lettering and design, 357 pages. All plates and tissue guards present. Large Quartos. Text remarkably clean, bright, unmarked. Endpapers browned, staining to backstrips, corners lightly bumped and worn. #426 of 500 signed and numbered by Marston. Previous owner's nameplate (Louis Eben Poole) on both front endpapers. Please fel free to email for photos.
Seller: Tsunami Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Volume II only of a 2 volume set. Bound in publishers red cloth. Gilt faded to spine. Front hinge cracked. Bottom margin stain to first few pages. Title page detached. The Lea and Dove Edition, Being the 100th Edition of the Compleat Angler. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$463.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good hardcover two volume set A presentation copy to the English Faculty Library, Oxford University. Two discrete library stamps but never in the catalogue. The Lea and Dobe 100th edition. Limited, number 346 of 500 copies. Edition number and editor's signature penned on reverse of volume one's half title page. Boards and spines are marked and lightly scored. Rear board of volume one is sunned. Spines are tanned. Spine of volume two is slightly rippled. One centimetre tear on spine foot of volume one. Shelf marks on spine feet. Leading corners and spine ends are bumped, worn and nicked. Lower edges are lightly bumped and worn. Page block and pages are tanned and marked with creases throughout. Pen on pastedowns. Library stamps on FEPs and reverse of title pages. FEP to title page of volume two are detached from binding. Front pastedown hinges are split and binding is visible throughout but remaining pages are intact. Pages are rough-cut and nicked. Ten centimetre tear on FEP of volume two . One centimetre tear on leading edge of page 351. Errata slip intact. Contents and maps present and very clear. HCW
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$485.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volumes in-quarto, xcvii, (22), 357 pages, pagination on both volumes. Bindings slightly worn. Manuscript ex-dono on endpaper, light foxing throughout. Copy no. 462/500, signed by R. B. Marston. 54 photo-gravures, complete, including 27 plates by Peter Henry Emerson and the other 27 by George Bankart. "The Lea and Dobe Edition, being the 100th Edition of the Compleat Angler". [WITH] an etching, "Isaac Walton" by W. Strang (1902) after Jacob Huysmans painting.
Seller: DACART Livres rares & manuscrits (ALAC), Saint-Lambert, QC, Canada
Price: US$546.71 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume 2 only of the 2 volume set. Large Quarto (approx 330 mm by 270mm). Book condition: VERY GOOD+. Full green morocco leather binding with gilt titles to spine and monogram to cover. Name plate on reverse of front board. Only very mild wear to boards. Mild foxing to prelims with clean pages completely free of foxing thereafter. Binding is firm and tight. Superb condition for age of book. Feel free to email for additional images. Very heavy book however additional UK postage costs factored into the price of the book. Postage costs for overseas buyers can be provided on request by email.
Seller: ACCESSbooks, Gateside, FIFE, United Kingdom
Price: US$578.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Demy Quarto Edition to commemorate the 100th edition of The Compleat Angler! Two volumes in half green morocco over green cloth, some gilt tooling, gilt titles to upper boards, corners & edges worn. Spines, rubbed, raised bands, gilt titles. Internally Vol 1, half title, portrait frontis, [7], (viii-xcvii), [3], [3], (d-t), [1], [1], 2-118. Portrait frontis, [2], 119-357 pp. 54 pls, 87 illustrations plus 3 maps, errata leaf tipped to half title V1, each pl with printed guard, t.e.c, remainder uncut. Wood engravings by Mr. F. Carless & engraved by Mr. F. Alphonse Stankowski; photogravures by P.H. Emerson & George Bankart. (views on the Lea and Dove—those on the Lea by Mr. P. H. Emerson, B.A., & those on the Dove by Mr. George Bankart). VG (286*225 mm). The present edition reprints the text of the 1676 edition. Edition statement from verso of half-title (v. 1); full statement reads: This Demy Quarto Edition is limited strictly to 500 copies, of which this copy is No. 290 - signed by the editor RB Marston
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Price: US$596.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good used 2 volume set. Volume 1: xcvii, 118pp, Volume II: 119-357pp. With fifty-four photogravures by Peter Henry Emerson and George Bankart, and about 100 woodcuts in the text. The Lea and Dove Edition; Demi-Quarto Edition No. 355 of 500 copies, signed by the editor, R. B. Marston to the reverse of the half-title page - it being the limited editions page. Bound in original publisher's quarter cream over green cloth covered boards with gilt embossed titles to the spines and monograms to the cloth boards. Upper edges gilt - others rough-cut. Some age toning to the spines. Several light bumps to the board edges. Toning to the endpapers. A former owner's name in ink to the head of the front endpaper (A. G. West Bridlington). Some spotting to the endpapers (also plate XVIII Mouth of the Old River Stort), a little less to the leading and lower fore-edges - very scattered elsewhere. Several board corners a little turned in. A very good, clean, tight two volume limited editions set.
Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Price: US$743.52 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 volume set. xcvii, [22], 118pp; 119-357pp. With fifty-four photogravures by Peter Henry Emerson and George Bankhart, and about 100 woodcuts in the text. The Lea and Dove Edition; Demi-Quarto Edition No. 335 of 500 copies, signed by editor R. B. Marston. 27 of the photographic plates are by P. H. Emerson. Spines somewhat age discoloured, with a few marks to boards. Some wear to extremities. Bindings secure. Typical age discolouration to ffeps. Inside a little sporadic foxing. Most plates clean, some with some mainly marginal spots. A very decent set. A heavy set, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. (R7)
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$1222.05 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1888). (1653) 1888 The Lea and Dove (1st Marston) Edition in two volumes - Demy Quarto issue limited to 500 copies. Folio (220 x 298mm). Pp(122)+118+iv+119-359. Frontispiece portraits of Walton & Cotton, 52 photogravure plates by P.H. Emerson & George Bankhart, text woodcuts, maps, title-pages in black & red. Half morocco over green cloth boards, spine titled in gilt, gilt Walton & Cotton cypher to upper board, raised bands, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A nicely restored set, recased in the original binding. #270 of 500 copies, signed by R.B. Marston. Two different bookplates of Walton colllector Colin Pitt. Coigney 139. The Lea and Dove Edition, being the 100th Edition of THE COMPLEAT ANGLER: OR, THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION. BEING A DISCOURSE OF RIVERS, FISH-PONDS, FISH AND FISHING written by Izaak Walton, and INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO ANGLE FOR TROUT OR GRAYLING IN A CLEAR STREAM by Charles Cotton. Edited and arranged by R.B. Marston. With fifty-four photogravures and about 100 woodcuts. And containing a reprint of THE CHRONICLE OF THE COMPLEAT ANGLER: A biographical record of its various editions and imitations, by T. Westwood and T. Satchell. In two volumes. .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Edited and Arranged by R. B. Marston. 2 vols. With fifty-four photogravures and about 100 woodcuts on India paper. Folio, full green crushed levant morocco; t.e.g. The Lea and Dove Edition; Royal Quarto Edition de Luxe; No. 160 of 250 copies, signed by editor R. B. Marston. Contemporary reviews affixed to blank leaf at front of Vol. I; a few minor scuffs to bindings; both volumes tight and sound; contents fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1775.19 + shipping
Description: 2 Vols, xcvii A to T 118, Vol II 119 to 357 pages, Lea and Dove 1st Marston Edn, being the 100th edition of the Complete Angler or The Contemplative Man Recreation.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$1929.56 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A beautiful Ramage bound limited edition of Izaak Walton's important work on fishing, a smart illustrated edition of only five hundred copies. The one hundredth edition of this important work.In a beautiful half crushed morocco binding by Ramage.A limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is numbered 304.Signed by the editor, R. B. Marston, to the limitation page.Complete in two volumes.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, nineteen plates, and in-text engravings. Collated, complete.Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-two plates, and in-text engravings. Collated, lacking one plate, Plate XXXI.'The Compleat Angler' is a well known seventeenth century work celebrating the art and spirit of fishing, in both prose and verse.The work was admired by the likes of Charles Lamb, who admired it for it's innocence and simplicity of the heart. In fact it is so popular that it is the second most reprinted book in English after the King James Bible.Walton's writing is vivid and expands further than being just a fishing manual, with passages of rich description, such as describing the contents in the bag of an angler.Izaak Walton is now best known for this work, though he professed to not be an expert with a fishing fly. He also wrote a collection of short biographies called 'Walton's Lives'.With contributions by Charles Cotton, a poet, who is best known for these contributions, and for his translations of the works of Michel de Montaigne.Edited and arranged by R. B. Marston.Including 'The Chronicle of the Compleat Angler' by T. Westwood and T. Satchell.Bookplate of Scottish bibliophile Alexander Stone to the front paste down. In a half crushed morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards, bound by Ramage. Externally, smart. Spines are lightly faded. Very light rubbing to the boards. Bookplate to the front paste downs. Spotting to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom