Price: US$65.01 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Bumped and chipped, some splitting to spine ends, spine and board edges tanned, gutters cracked throughout, some signatures loose but still attached, Bohn's catalogue to endpapers, occasional spot or smudge mark else pp clean and bright. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$78.01 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Nice copy of this Second printing (1861). Octavo. xix, (1), 496, [2] pp. Bound in full calf with five raised bands to spine ( which is damaged with loss to top ) red label with gilt tiles, decoration to spine panels and edge decorations in gilt page edges marbled.School crest embossed in gilt on front board. Illustrated with 203 wood engravings. The binding is slightly detached along the back inner hinge but still firm. Both boards rubbed, marked.Staining to the top quarter of the frontispiece portrait of Walton. Prev. owners names dates to blank inner page, Remains of label/seal to bastard title page.Slight foxing throughout. First published in 1856, this is the second printing of the Edward Jesse edition. Cotton's work comprises the second part with a separate title page and frontispiece, and is titled, "The complete angler: being instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream." Fishing tackle makers page at rear.
Seller: Talisman Books, Stockport, CHS, United Kingdom
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark olive 1/2 morocco, marbled paper covered boards, edged in gilt, spine panel with two compartments lettered and four decorated in gilt, 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers, top text block edge in gilt. Leather is rubbed along joints and spine bands, toned on spine panel to medium brown, also some rubbing to corners. Firm binding, clean interior beyond former owner's signature and annotation in pencil on upper main title, small "John Wanamker" (where originally sold) stamp on upper verso of front flyleaf. xix,496,[2] pp. Coigney 79; Horne 78; Oliver 76. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Izaak Walton; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler. Henry G. Bohn, London, 1861.
Price: US$117.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An attractive half calf edition of Izaak Walton's famed celebration of angling, illustrated throughout. Illustrated with a frontispiece, one further portrait plate, and a facsimile title page plates. Collated, bound without twenty-four engraved plates that should appear in this work. With numerous vignette wood engravings throughout.A well known work first published in the seventeenth century, celebrating the art and spirit of fishing, in both prose and verse. New editions were edited and expanded by Walton for over a quarter of a century, with the second part of this work written by Walton's friend and fellow angler, Charles Cotton.With one advertisement leaf to the start of the work, and six pages to the rear.With the inscription of J. M. Stevenson to the front pastedown, and head of the half title.A very smart copy of this delightful study of angling. Rebound in a half calf binding, with paper covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Externally, excellent, with light fading to back strip. Rear joint, and head of front joint, starting, with boards firmly held. Inscription to front pastedown, and head of half title. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with only the odd spot or light handling mark. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$188.96 + shipping
Description: Volume in 8 piccolo, tela editoriale, piatto inquadrato da filetto in oro, medaglione centrale, titolo inquadrato al dorso, piccola figura in oro, sguardie, antiporta incisa in rame col ritratto di Walton protetto da velina, frontespizio con ampia vignetta silografica, XIX, 496 pp., carta di subscribers e colophon, una tavola col ritratto inciso in rame di Cotton che precede l'occhiello della seconda parte dell'opera a pagina 339, 203 illustrazioni silografiche nel testo. Magnifico esemplare d'un classico sulla pesca soprattutto al lancio, arricchito dalle biografie dei due estensori e da una serie di aggiornamenti sui tipi e luoghi deputati alla pesca. Splendida la parte iconografica, in ottimo stato (solo qualche lievissima menda alla legatura), assai poco comune edizione.
Seller: Accademia degli Erranti di Vada Monica, Torino, Italy
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing (1861). Octavo. xix, [3], 496, [2] pp. Rebound in maroon cloth by Joseph J. Schultz & Co., all edges marbled. Illustrated with 26 steel engraved plates and 203 wood engravings. 18 cm. The cloth binding is detached along the back inner hinge and loose at the front inner hinge between the frontispiece portrait of Walton and the letterpress title page, else very good with the text bblock tight, with very clean and bright engravings on steel and wood. First published in 1856, this is the second printing of the Edward Jesse edition. Cotton's work comprises the second part with a separate title page and frontispiece, and is titled, "The complete angler: being instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream." A near fine copy from the library of the American wood-engraver John DePol, with his wood engraved bookplate on the front pastedown.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$439.06 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xix, 496 p : ill, ports ; 19 cm. Notes; Includes index. Added title page engraving with tissue guard. Subjects; Fishing - Early works to 1800. Walton. The compleat angler. Genre; Illustrated. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$484.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xix, 496 p : ill, ports ; 19 cm. Notes; Includes index. Added title page engraving with tissue guard. Subjects; Fishing - Early works to 1800. Walton. The compleat angler. Genre; Illustrated. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.