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Price: US$369.41 + shipping
Description: Seventh Edition (Bagster's First), 8vo, bound in half calf gilt, recently rebacked, with marbled boards, new endpapers, [vi], pp512, indexed, plus pp2 publisher's adverts, b/w portrait frontis, illustrated with b/w plates and text drawings. Magazine cutting portrait of Walton fixed to original front endpaper, pencil gift inscription and notes to title page and rear endpaper, and some throughout, right hand margin of pp171/2 neatly removed, but text not affected, boards rather rubbed. A V. Good copy overall. (SHELF 4) ** To see a scan of this book please visit our Home page ** Our shop is open to visitors Monday to Saturday 10am - 5pm. - Credit and (UK) Debit cards welcome.- Books posted Worldwide. - For any queries please contact us
Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Bagster edition, Mercier and Co. Octavo edition. Engraved half title present. Illustrated with 32 engravings by Audinet (15 plates, 17 small fish in text), 2 musical engravings, 2 woodcuts. Printed by C. Mercier and Co. vi, [7]-512 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Coigney 17 Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, black lettering piece. Minor foxing, with 1809 owner signature in upper title margin. Bookplate. Very good plus copy Engraved half title present. Illustrated with 32 engravings by Audinet (15 plates, 17 small fish in text), 2 musical engravings, 2 woodcuts. Printed by C. Mercier and Co. vi, [7]-512 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First Bagster edition, Mercier and Co. Octavo edition.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
WALTON Izaak. The Compleat Angler. Samuel Bagster, 1808.
Price: US$1401.33 + shipping
Description: x 516 pages, TEG, frontis illus + plate of portraits of the five Walton biographies + 12 plates + 2 plates of music and 3 plates of tackle and flies, text engravings of fish to contents. This copy has been interleaved with an extra 70 plates added includes portraits, also plates by Howlett, Barlow, plates and music from an earlier edition of the complete angler occasionally 2 to 3 per page, some browning to frontis, and the first few pages, small chips to lower corner margin of 1/2 title, bound in Circa 1870, 1/2 green morroco with raised bands and gilt ruled frames to the spine compartments, spine evenly faded. Collation as Coigney 19 copy A but pages trimmed, the 3 Coigney copies are untrimmed hence size 8 1/4" x 10 5/8". Westwood notes this edition as very rare because a great part of Bagster's stock had been lost in a warehouse fire. In this quarto edition the typeset is different with more words per line and fewer lines per page than the octavo edition proving that this is a different edition and not merely a larger paper edition. Coigney 19 Horne 18
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$1410.94 + shipping
Description: A smart copy of the first Bagster edition of Isaac Walton and Charles Cotton's noted and influential celebration of fishing, The Complete Angler. With the scarce publisher's adverts. 'The Compleat Angler' is Izaak Walton's best known work. It was edited and expanded by Walton for over a quarter of a century. The work is a celebration of fishing through prose and verse.The second part of this work is written by Walton's friend and fellow angler, Charles Cotton. This is the seventh edition of the work, and the first edition to be edited by Bagster. Bagster was the founder of the publishing firm 'Bagster and Sons'. He is notable for his polyglot bibles. With the lives of the authors by Sir John Hawkins as called for. From the library of Charles Montogmery Rivaz. Rivaz' bookplate to the front pastedown and his inscription to the front endpaper. Rivaz was a British India Colonial Administrator. Following his name to the recto of the front endpaper Rivaz quotes Walton from this work 'and 1st the blessing of St Maters' Master, he upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go angling'. With a frontispiece of Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton and Sir John Hawkins. Engraved half-title and fourteen plates by Audinet. Two music plates and several in-text fishing engravings. Two woodcuts. Collated, complete with the scarce publisher's adverts. A very smart copy of this work. In a full calf binding with gilt stamping to the spine and to the board edges. Externally, generally smart with patches of rubbing to the joints and to the extremities. The gilt to the spines has faded slightly. Split to the rear joint, with the hinge starting but firm. Bookplate to the front pastedown, Charles Montgomery Rivaz. His notes to the recto of front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with just the odd scattered spots to pages. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom