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Price: US$89.66 + shipping
Description: 8vo, frontis. portrait, 5 other portraits, coloured stencil illus. in text, pp. x, 631, [1], full brown niger morocco, Number 757 of an edition limited to 1100 copies for sale in the UK and 500 for North America, some spotting at centre of upper cover, and some fading to the rear cover fore-edge, spine lightly sunned.
Seller: Spike Hughes Rare Books ABA, Innerleithen, United Kingdom
Price: US$179.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 10 preliminary pages, 631 pages, frontispiece portrait plate, copperplate engravings and drawings in the text colour stencilled at the Curwen Press, very good condition in original morocco binding, top edge gilt on the rough, marbled paper end-papers, in worn marbled paper covered slipcase, spine darkened, edges of spine slightly rubbed, insect ?) damage to approximately one inch of the top edge of the front board, number 1190 of 1600 copies. Heavy book - additional shipping will be requested for destinations out-with the United kingdom.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$196.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bound in full brown leather, stamped in gold w/ raised bands and decorated endsheets. A beautiful copy of this limited edition (#844/1600). 631 pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$209.75 + shipping
Description: Limited numbered edition in full leather (as issued) in the scarce slipcase, octavo, leather boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, top page edges gilted, marbled eps, frontispiece, x + 631pp, VG (light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in marbled slipcase VG (light rubbing, light tanning, light soiling)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus published in a slender edition of eleven hundred copies for sale in England of which this is number 733. Tissue guard present. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Bookplate to inside front board; otherwise a bright clean copy in full leather. Spine darkened with age. Comes in accompanying slipcase.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
WALTON Izaak. The Compleat Angler, The Lives Of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson. , 1929.
Price: US$250.42 + shipping
Description: X 631 pages, text and full page illus by Thomas Boulter and Charles Sierist, and edited by Geoffrey Keynes, limited to 1600 copies, full tan morroco binding in slipcase. Coigney 303.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Izaak Walton. The Compleat Walton. The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, 1929.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown Morrocco cover with author's initials stamped in gilt in decorative oval frame, 6 raised bands to spine with titles in gilt, marbled epps, untrimmed edges, 631pp containes 6 copper engraved portraits, and 10 drawings. This is number 90 in a limited edition of 1100. Name of previous owner in pencil on ffeps. Some offsetting to epps, small amount of wear to edges of front and back cover. Otherwise a clean and tight copy. There is no slip case with this copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Scrivener's Books and Bookbinding, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$260.00 + shipping
Description: 216 x 130 mm. (8 1/2 x 5"). x, 631, [1] pp.Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Original russet morocco with central gilt medallion containing initials I. W., raised bands with gilt titling, top edge gilt on the rough, all other edges untrimmed, ENTIRELY UNOPENED. (Lacking original marbled slipcase.) With six black & white plates and 12 color in-text illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Wright. Dreyfus 61. âLeather slightly dulled from leather preservative and some subtle darkening in places, a hint of offsetting from plates, otherwise in fine condition, obviously never read. Produced with the aim to unite the popular, disparate perceptions of Walton produced in readers who have only read one or another of Walton's well-known works, this collection was edited "with a discreet efficiency which allows Walton to speak for himself." (F. Meynell in a letter to G. Keynes) Included, of course, is his classic work on the art of angling, complete with wise fish lore, written by an indomitable angler who knew every haunt of fresh water fish in the south of England. Also present are Walton's famous biographies of Donne, Herbert, Hooker, Henry Wotton, and Bishop Robert Sanderson. Though Walton knew all of these worthies except Hooker, and although he attempted to make his biographies factually accurate, he nevertheless "guilelessly transforms his subjects into his own image, that of a staunch, heart-of-oak traditionalist who views men and life with the eyes of an Anglican archbishop." (Day) His miscellaneous writings and Keynes' "Life of Walton" round out the collection. The publisher's morocco is pleasant, and our unopened copy ensures that the volume is internally pristine. First Collected Edition. No. 1,245 of 1,600 copies.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: x, 632 pp. Small 8vo. Full tan natural morocco leather over boards, raised bands, black ruled panels with gilt head and tail rules, gilt spine title and 'I.W.' monogram to front cover within floral medallion. Deckled fore and tail, gilt head, marbled endpapers, C. Sigrist engraved Walton frontispiece with 5 additional Sigrist portraits, one for each 'Life'; Compleat Angler illustrated with colored drawings by T. L. Poulton. Spine toned, very light rubbing to tips, small stain to fore tail corner of front cover. Very sound and tight otherwise with FINE interior contents.
Seller: Arches Bookhouse, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$281.79 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number 1162 of 1,600 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper. 6 copper engravings by Charles Sigrist and 10 drawings of fish by T.L.Poulton stencilled in colours at the Curwen Press. Full natural morocco with marbled endpapers, gilt spine lettering, upper board stamped in gilt, inner dentelles gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Edges of slipcase smoothed. Else a fine copy. (Dreyfus 61)
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
. The Compleat Walton. Nonesuch Press, 1929.
Price: US$288.19 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Compleat Angler etc. By Izaak Walton. Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. One of 1100 numbered copies for sale in the UK.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Full brown Morocco leather boards with author's initials stamped in gilt in decorative oval frame; raised bands to spine with titles in gilt, marbled end papers, untrimmed edges, 631 pp with 6 copper engraved portraits, and 10 drawings.Top page edges gilt.A near fine book contained in a near fine marbled paper covered slipcase as issued, rubbed a little at bottom edges. This is number418 in a limited edition of 1100.
Seller: THE USUAL SUSPECTS (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Price: US$301.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No. 1035 of a limited edn. of 1600 copies. Illus. with 6 b.w. portrait plates and 10 cold. plates. 8vo. full morocco, marbled eps., v.g.
Seller: Allsop Antiquarian Booksellers PBFA, Warwick, United Kingdom
Izaak Walton. The Compleat Walton. The Nonesuch Press, 1929.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition, copy number 823 of 1,100 UK copies and 500 US copies. Contains The Compleat Angler, The Lives of Donne, Wotton Hooker Herbert & Sanderson, Love & Truth and miscellaneous writings. Full leather bound with nice deckled edges. Pretty marbled slipcase. Pages are clean and unmarked and binding is tight. Boards have some fading and stains.
Seller: Sparrow's Bookshop, IOBA, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches (210 x130 mm); pp. [6] x, 631 [5]. 6 copperplate engravings by Charles Sigrist (portraits of Walton, Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, and Sanderson) with tissue guards, but some offsetting to adjoining pages; 10 drawings of fish from in-line blocks, water-colored with stencils. Monotype Poliphilius on Pannekoek mould-made paper. All edges untrimmed, t.e.g. on the rough; bound in full natural morocco, headband and tailband, turn-ins with gilt fillets, marbled endpapers; "I.W." within gilt frame on front cover and gilt title on spine, raised bands; spine slightly wrinkled, but binding is firm and book is internally bright and clean. Housed in a marbled paper slipcase matching the endpapers, somewhat discolored and corners worn. Number 1577 of 1600 copies, in ink on the limitation page. [Dreyfus 61]. The first edition of Izaak Walton's (1593 - 1683) complete writings, this volume contains Walton's most famous work, the Compleat Angler from the edition of 1668 - with the variants of 1676 as an appendix [Satchell p. 5] - in which Walton celebrates the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse, as well as the Lives; Love and Truth; and miscellaneous Poetry and Prose, as well as a Life of Walton and bibliographical notes, compiled by the editor. [John Dreyfus. A History of The Nonesuch Press. London: 1981; p. 212] The NONESUCH PRESS was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel, and their mutual friend David Garnett who was a bookseller in Soho's Gerrard Street, in the basement of which the press began. It was unusual among private presses as it used a small hand press to design books, but had them printed by commercial printers, in order to produce book designs with the quality of a fine-press but available to a wider audience at lower prices. Meynell also wanted to demonstrate that "mechanical means could be made to serve fine ends." He believed that the production of exquisitely designed and produced books was not the preserve of the private press predicated upon the example established by William Morris's Kelmscott Press, which emphasized the primacy of the hand press printed book.
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$363.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Incls signed letter Please see photos as part of condition report 1929 1st Edition (Thus) , Vellum THE COMPLEAT WALTON By Izaac Walton Izaak Walton (baptised 21 September 1593 – 15 December 1683) was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies including one of his friend John Donne. They have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives. Illustrated By: Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Bloomsbury, London octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 631 ISBN: 1929 1st Edition THE COMPLEAT WALTON Izaac Walton THE NONESUCH PRESS, BLOOMSBURY Limited Edition 284/1100 631 Pages Includes: THE COMPLEAT ANGLER THE LIVES OF DONNE WOTTON HOOKER HERBERT & SANDERSON WITH LOVE AND TRUTH MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS Edited by Geoffrey Keynes Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist 6 Plates including frontispiece Top edge rough gilt, other edges untrimmed, some unopened Includes a cover letter signed by Mrs Ina Mabel Girdlestone wife of Professor Gathorne Robert Girdlestone "GRG" pioneering surgen and founder of the Nuffield Orthepaedic Centre. SKU: BTETM0001702 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Seller: Books That Expand The Mind, Margate, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$368.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full leather with minor wear to the spine thus very good plus. Slipcase has modest wear rates very good. Limited edition # 672 of 1100 with 500 copies for sale in the US. Interestingly, despite the relatively large number of volumes printed, this is a hard book to fine.
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
Walton, Izaak; Geoffrey Keynes (editor). Compleat Angler. Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, 1929.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Full natural morocco, tooled in gold, with marbled endpapers, and top edge gilt on the rough. 631 pages; with text set in Monotype Poliphilus and printed on Pannekoek mould-made paper. Illustrations include six copper engraved portraits by Charles Sigrist, and ten drawings of fish and a lead weight by Thomas Poulton printed from line blocks, stencil-tinted at the Curwen Press. Limited to 1600 copies. The first collection of Walton's writings published under one cover. A near fine copy in the lightly worn original marbled boards slipcase. Size: Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$393.25 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, number 585 of 1100 copies; 8vo; 6 copper engraved portraits by Charles Sigrist, 10 coloured text illustrations of fish; orignal full brown morocco, gilt 'I.W.' within oval frame to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, covers slightly marked, to edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, overall a very good copy. 'Walton's writings have never before been collected under one cover. The Angler and the Lives have always been dressed up separately so as to make their appeal to entirely different classes of readers, and Walton's full achievement has never been allowed to appear.' (Geoffrey Keynes) This edition includes the Compleat Angler from the edition of 1668, with the variants of 1676 as an appendix. Keynes also supplies a Life of Walton and bibliographic notes.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: limited edition to 1600 copies total of which this is numbered 1449. First edition. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes 8vo. With illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. Full brown leather hardcover, in Very Good condition
Seller: Karl Books, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$460.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. (6),x,631,(5) pp. plus 6 inserts. Full morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt spine title. Gilt "I.W." within oval frame on the upper board. Inner dentelles wit simple gilt lines, Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt in the rough, Six copperplate engravings and ten line block drawings. One of 1600 numbered copies, This is no. 667. This is a near fine copy, with only traces of wear. While most copies of this title exhibit a sunned and/or darkened spine, this copy is neither sunned nor darkened. Bookplate of Carlos Nestler on the front pastedown. In publisher's marbled paper slipcase which exhibits wear at the corner and edges. Nonesuch Bibliography, 61.
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$486.73 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A smart, limited edition of the works of Izaak Walton. Containing: The Compleat Angler The Lives of Donne Wotton Hooker Herbert and Sanderson Limited to 1100 copies, of which this is numbered 1250. Including an engraved frontispiece. In a morocco binding. Externally, smart, with just a few marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
WALTON, Izaak. Compleat Angler, The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert. , 1929.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson, With Love & Truth & Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. Full niger morocco, in publisher's marbled slipcase. Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Limited to 1100 copies. Fine.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Poulton, Thomas, & Sigrist, Charles. Number 1253 of 1600 copies. With illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. 1 vols. 8vo. A beautifully produced volume (the title page alone went through 27 revisions), and the first edition of Walton's complete writings. Dreyfus 61 Original full brown niger morocco, spine and adjoining portion of covers slightly darkened, else fine in original slipcase. Provenance: Ashley Montagu With illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$794.03 + shipping
Description: Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. Pp. x+632, engraved frontispiece portrait and 5 plates (one lacking the tissue guard), l0 coloured text illustrations of fish, 2 seals of John Donne re-drawn by Poulton and printed in red, marbled endpapers, bibliographical notes, indices; full tan morocco, spine lettered in gilt between raised bands, author's initials within decorative oval frame in gilt at centre of upper board, a couple of tiny dents to lower board; top edges rough gilt, others uncut; bookplate of Edward Wheewall Holden on upper pastedown, the plates faintly offset; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1929. Edition limited to l,600 numbered copies. McKitterick 61.*Lacking the slipcase. Sir Edward Wheewall Holden (1885-1947) took his family carriage and saddlery business, Holden & Frost, into a partnership with General Motors to form Australia's first automobile manufacturer. Holden n was influential in the company's expansion into motor-body building, and its use of highly automated mass production technology. He was also the foundation director and first chairman of the South Australian Industries Assistance Corporation, and served in the South Australian Legislative Council from 1935-47.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$832.56 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A finely bound, limited edition copy of Izaak Walton's noted work 'The Compleat Angler'. The editor, Geoffrey Kenyes' copy, with his signature to the edition statement. The first edition, thus of this work. Limited edition, number 248 of 1600 copies. Signed by the editor, Geoffrey Keynes, to the edition statement. This copy has been printed by R and R Clark in Edinburgh, the copperplate engravings by A Alexander and Son in London. The drawings have been colour-stencilled by the Curwen Press. The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited edition and private press. They were founded by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel and their friend David Garnett. Their aspiration was for their publications to be aligned with the same aesthetic standards as the private press movement. They were unusual as they used a small Albion press to design the books, but had them printed by commercial printers. In doing so, books with the quality of a fine-press were produced, but available to a wider audience at lower prices.'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.In the original slipcase. A very bright copy of this work. In the original crushed morocco binding. With original slipcase. Externally, excellent with the occasional handling mark to the boards. Slipcase is also in an excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom