Izaak Walton & Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler. Henry Kent Causton, 1851.

Price: US$320.69 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Vary scarce copy in original embossed blue cloth binding, rubbed and worn to extremities, bumped to spine & corners, spine loose, small tears to top and bottom of spine. Coat of arms stamped to fep and owners name inscribed on frontis (tissue guard spotted). Internally the binding is good, pages are clear and bright and it is a good copy of a scarce edition seldom seen in it's original binding

Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom

WALTON, Izaak and COTTON, Charles. The Complete Angler. London, Henry Kent Causton, 1851.

Price: US$577.24 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Small 8vo pp. 418. With 13 full-page engravings on copper by Thos. Cook and John Pye after Wale and Nash and 72 neat, but anonymous vignettes engraved on wood. Publisher’s blue blind-stamped cloth. A nice edition in very good condition. Lowndes 2829

Seller: Sokol Books Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Walton, Izaak & Cotton, Charles. THE COMPLETE ANGLER; THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION: IN TWO PARTS WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION AND NOTES AND EMBELLISHED WITH EIGHTY-FIVE ENGRAVINGS ON COPPER AND WOOD. Henry Kent Causton, 1851.

Price: US$675.40 + shipping

Description: THE COMPLETE ANGLER; THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION: IN TWO PARTS WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION AND NOTES AND EMBELLISHED WITH EIGHTY-FIVE ENGRAVINGS ON COPPER AND WOOD, Henry Kent Causton, 1851, a fine copy rebound in a full leather Bayntun binding with all edges in gold-gilt. The plates are engraved after drawings by Wale and Nash. A curiously uncommon edition with no copies showing up at the major auction venues after 1974.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.