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Price: US$28.29 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1889. No Edition Remarks. 445 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Hinges are slightly cracked with exposed netting. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed gilt. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Medium blue cloth 8vo with simple black borders on front board and back. Gilt fish motif on front. Gilt lettering and gilt motifs on sun faded backstrip. Bumped corners and a little fraying to corners and backstrip ends. Black end papers. Front hinge split. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Interior is secure, clean and clear with some foxing. Illustrated and containing several plates. Untrimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler. John C. Nimmo., 1889.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Complete with All Illustrations. Boards with edge and corner wear, bumped corners, rubbing, small tears top/bottom of spine, sunned/fading to spine and back cover, marks/scratches. Top, Tail and Fore edge with spotting/tanned, marks, Fore and Tail edge with rough cut edge. Name and date written on fep, Inside boards and endpapers with spotting, Pages with Age discolouration, spotting and foxing, odd page with water mark mainly to pages with illustrations, tight binding. A Good personal copy for a book of this Age. **880g** All orders are sent with a tracking /signature service for your peace of mind, so that you can keep tabs on your parcel. For overseas customers - on some sites we use, parcels weighing over the standard rate may incur an additional charge and we will then contact you with the additional shipping fee required. This is for the postage only we do not charge you for our time or our excellent packaging, which we are noted for. Dispatched in cardboard mailers within 24/48 Hours Mon - Friday 2pm, except bank holidays, otherwise next business day - excellent service guaranteed. AANBE17070
Seller: Nugget Box (PBFA), Stafford, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green boards with gilt fish and titles on front cover and title on spine. Boards show light wear with corners and spine ends rubbed. Spine is tanned. Endpapers have light foxing. 445 pages are lightly tanned. Only marking is previous owner's signature in ink on the FE.
Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$71.91 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: R320100501: 1889. In-8. Relié cuir dos-coins. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. XV + 445 + 16 pages augmentées de nombreuses illustrations en noir et blac dans et hors texte - Frontispice en noir et blanc - Des annotations au feutre noir en 1ere page de garde - Plats et contre-plats jaspés - Auteur, titre dorés au dos (legermeent fanés) - Dos à 5 nerfs. Tranches de tete dorées. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Price: US$83.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp xv, 445. "With eight original etchings and seventy-four wood engravings". Original cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. A little wear to head of spine and a light stain to its foot. Some foxing to endpapers. A nice copy
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Price: US$92.57 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Complete Angler, xv, 445 pp 8.0 x 5.5 inches, containing six original etchings, two tissue guarded portraits and 74 wood engravings, bound with John Jackson: 'The Practical Fly-Fisher' 16 pp with 10 plates, coloured by hand, representing 120 flies, natural and artificial. Full maroon leather binding which appears almost as new. Titled in gilt on green leather label on the spine between 2 of the 5 raised bands. Decorated with oval gold device portraying Saint Peter in the middle with Latin motto. Bound by the Radley College [formerly St Peter's] College. The decorative spine area with lightly sunned or loss of tint. Small loss of leather above the top band. Beautifully marbled to the book block, end-papers and fore, top and tail edges. Full page ink label on front page-down dated 1895. A beautiful copy.
Seller: Piccadilly Books & Pigalle livres, Randers NV, Denmark
Price: US$115.49 + shipping
Description: 8vo, (xvi), 445, (1) pp. Engraved illustrations. Original gilt titled cloth, spine slightly sunned. Coigney 143.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo, xv, 445pp. With six original etchings, two portraits and twenty four wood engravings. Title page printed in red and black. The second work 'The Practical Fly-Fisher' also 1889, 16pp with ten plates COLOURED BY HAND representing 120 flies, natural and artificial. Plates with tissue guards. In grey green cloth with gilt titles and decoration. Black end papers. Spine somewhat worn and discoloured, otherwise a good copy of this uncommon edition.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$141.16 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1889). (1653) 1889 The Second Nimmo Edition (Coigney 141). 8vo (130 x 205mm). Ppxv,445,16. With 6 original etchings, 2 portraits & 74 wood engravings in the text + 10 hand-coloured plates of flies. Bluish-green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt fish on upper board, top edge gilt. Spine darkened & slightly rubbed, some foxing of prelims but a good copy. The Second Nimmo Edition (Coigney 141). The "Treatise on Flies and Fly-hooks" at the rear consists of the ten hand-coloured plates and 16 pages of fly-dressings from John Jackson's "The Practical Fly-Fisher." .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: xv, 445 pp. Illus. with 8 original etchings and 74 wood engravings. 8vo. A good+ or better copy, spine ends worn with a few small tears, a few small splits to the cloth at the hinges, but binding is still completely solid, extremities rubbed with some discoloring to the top edge of rear board, plates sharp without foxing, leaves clean.
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Octavo. Original green cloth over boards, gilt decorations and lettering at front cover and spine, gilt top edge, edited by John Major, eight original etchings and seventy-four wood engravings. Very good, spine darkened, spine ends and corners bumped, pages slightly agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1889). (1653) 1889 The Second Nimmo Edition (Coigney 141). 8vo (130 x 205mm). Ppxv,445,16. With 6 original etchings, 2 portraits & 74 wood engravings in the text + 10 hand-coloured plates of flies. Bluish-green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt fish on upper board, top edge gilt. Spine faded, slight rubbing, some foxing but good. The Second Nimmo Edition (Coigney 141). The "Treatise on Flies and Fly-hooks" at the rear consists of the ten hand-coloured plates and 16 pages of fly-dressings from John Jackson's "The Practical Fly-Fisher." .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Good in 1/2 brown leather and marble paper covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text in two of the compartments. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/2" with the front joint and hinge broken leaving the front board almost free of the binding. The rear hinge and joint are cracked and barely holding. Complete Angler consists of 445 pages including an index and is illustrated with six original etchings, two portraits, and seventy-four wood engravings. The Practical Fly-Fisher by Jackson is bound-in at the rear of the book and contains 16 pages illustrated "with ten plates, coloured by hand, representing 120 flies, natural and artificial". Each of the plates are separated from text pages with tissue guards.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$179.66 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A richly illustrated copy of The Complete Angler and The Practical Fly-Fisher. This volume contains both parts of The Complete Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation along with The Practical Fly-Fisher more particularly for Grayling of Umber by John Jackson.The Complete Angler has six original etchings, two portraits and seventy-four wood engravings. The Practical Fly-Fisher has ten hand-coloured plates.Collated, complete.The Complete Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in both prose and verse. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with fading and marks to the spine and joint and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Front hinge is starting and weakening, front free endpaper and frontispiece are loose. Internally, generally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$179.66 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1889). (1653) 1889 The Second Nimmo Edition (Coigney 141). 8vo (130 x 205mm). Ppxv,445,16. With 6 original etchings, 2 portraits & 74 wood engravings in the text + 10 hand-coloured plates of flies. Bluish-green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt fish on upper board, top edge gilt. Spine faded, slight rubbing but good-plus. The "Treatise on Flies and Fly-hooks" at the rear consists of the ten hand-coloured plates and 16 pages of fly-dressings from John Jackson's "The Practical Fly-Fisher." .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$186.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volumes within this book. Firstly, The Complete Angler, 445pp + xv containing six original etchings, two tissue guarded portraits and 74 wood engravings. Secondly, The Practical Fly-Fisher by John Jackson, 16pp with 10 plates, coloured by hand, representing 120 flies, natural and artificial. Green coloured cloth covered boards with gilt illust of a fish on the face and two similar on spine. Gilt lettering on spine incl publication date. Black coloured end pages and top edge gilt. Title pages printed in red and black. Gift inscription dated 1889 on 1st Title page. Another previous owner's sig on ffep (Mr Butler of the ancient Wiltshire village of Lacock, Wiltshire). Some dirt marks to front cover, general edge wear, incl spine joints and corners; rubbing to top and tail of spine. Rough cut fore edge incl tiny loss from corner of pp147/8 and edge of 305/6. Altogether a special angling classic in excellent condition.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Description: Rebound by Ramage in continuous green morocco embellished with fish and fly devices stamped in gilt on spine and at corners of boards, top edge gilt, gilt tooled inner dentelles in marbled endpapers (some light scuffing at edges of spine - otherwise an attractive binding of the popular work). Pp. xv + 445 + 16, illus with coloured and b&w plates and wood engravings in text (some light spotting on fore-edge and prelims; no inscriptions).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Description: Illus., 8 x 5.5", nicely gilt-dec (vines and leaves) green morocco SIGNED BINDING (by ? Of NY), 445pp with index + pp, covers rubbed, extremities worn, spine badly sunned, hinges loose, front fly and prelims detatched but present, pp edge-toned, bookplate of former owner inside front cover (John Gerald Heckscher) else a decent copy, with original cloth covers bound in at end. BOUND WITH "THE PRACTICAL FLY-FISHER More Particularly for Grayling or Umber" by John Jackson, Nimmo 1889, with 10 FULL PAGE HAND- COLORED PLATES FLIES.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Walton, Izaak and Cotton, Charles. The Complete Angler. John C. Nimmo, London, 1889.
Price: US$903.43 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Edited by John Major. xv, 445pp with six original etchings, two protraits, and seventy-four wood engravings. Frontisp. of Izaak Walton. Bound in modern half calf and matching cloth covers with 16pp of The Practical Fly-Fisher by John Jackson with ten colour plates, coloured by hand, representing 120 flies, natural and artificial. Top edge gilt. Uncut. Very slight foxing on second flyleaf, last blank page and on two plate edges. Marbled endpapers. Gilt decorated and titled spine with raised bands.
Seller: Banfield House Booksellers, Gympie, QLD, Australia