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Price: US$30.79 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Illustrated with a number of wood engravings by Daglish on india paper laid onto their own pages. The outside is pretty tired with scuffs, bumps, marks and knocks but the interior, and the engravings is bright and clean. Size: Quarto. Illustrator: E. Fitch Daglish. Category: Fishing & Hunting; For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
WALTON, Izaak & COTTON, Charles. The Compleat Angler. Thornton Butterworth, London, 1927.
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Description: Internally very good subject to a little tanning to the endpapers, bottom corner of rep torn away, signature/date on fep, binding firm, cover sound with a little marking. Pics available Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This edition is illustrated from engravings on wood by E. Fitch Daglish. Quarter vellum printed in black, batik paper-covered boards, thick 4to., 367 pages, 16 mounted wood engravings of fish and birds on India paper, captioned tissue guards. Former owner's name signed upper right corner of first flyleaf, with Oxford 1941 penciled below. The spine is somewhat spotted, the board edges and tips show wear, some sunning and fading on front cover and marbled water damage line on front cover bottom right corner. Back cover is chipped along edge top and several scratches. A good copy with the plates and pages clean and fresh.
Seller: Puffin & Bean, Concord, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1927). (1653) 1927 The first Daglish edition (Coigney 295). 4to (200 x 258mm). Pp368. Illustrated with 16 tipped-in wood engravings of birds and fish by Eric Fitch Daglish, a pictorial head-piece & 2pp music. Oatmeal cloth spine over cream paper-covered boards, spine titled in black, black fish vignette to upper board. Preliminary pages & edges foxed, some use but a good copy. Coiney 297. The First Daglish Edition. An attractive Compleat Angler, with the Eric Fitch Daglish woodcuts printed on India paper and mounted on blank leaves with printed tissue-guards. .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A charming volume of work that celebrates fishing, with illustrations throughout. The Compleat Angler was first published in 1653 and John Major's edition was first published in 1823, this edition is reprinted from Major's edition of 1889.This volume is a lovely celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse and is beautifully illustrated with engravings by E. Fitch Daglish.With fifteen plates and a frontispiece, which are engravings on wood.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, smart with some marks to the boards and spine and some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. With a previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with lightly age toned page which remain generally clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$88.19 + shipping
Description: In-8 carré ( 255 X 200 mm ) de 367 pages, demi-toile beige, dos lisse et premier plat ornés. 15 belles gravures sur bois sous serpentes légendées de E. FITCH DAGLISH. Quelques rousseurs sur les tranches, bel exemplaire. Peche anglais
Seller: Tiré à Part, Marseille, France
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: lightly foxing to the cover and the half-title page, a very nice copy, edited by John Major; all illustrations present including the tissue guards
Seller: Classic Book Shop, Royal Oak, MI, U.S.A.
Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler. Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1927.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st edition thus. 16 fine tipped-in wood engravings with tissue guards. Uncut. Book: FINE exceptionally firm, clean, unmarked, bright, tight copy. D/J: moderate wear to spine o/w VG.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$159.85 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 367 pages; Physical desc. : ill. , tissue guards 26 cm. Subject: Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683. - The compleat angler - Bibliography. Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683. - Compleat angler - Bibliography. Fishing. Notes: The first part of The compleat angler was published in 1653. Cotton's second part appeared for the first time with the fifth edition of the former in 1678. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$184.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 367 pages; Physical desc. : ill. , tissue guards 26 cm. Subject: Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683. - The compleat angler - Bibliography. Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683. - Compleat angler - Bibliography. Fishing. Notes: The first part of The compleat angler was published in 1653. Cotton's second part appeared for the first time with the fifth edition of the former in 1678. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.