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Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 325pp. + Index. Marbled boards, brown leather spine and corners. The leather is scuffed and worn at the edges and bands. Book plate on the end paper. Gift inscription from 1929 on the page after the flyleaf. Some light yelloweing, and foxing at a few places. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall
Seller: Voyageur Book Shop, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Parts one and two bound in one volume. Part one published by William Pickering (1827), part two by Thomas White (1826). Part one is from an 1827 Pickering edition that lacks a title page (publisher and year of present copy determined from the frontispiece). Decorative titles from an 1825 Pickering edition have been pasted at blank page opposite frontis, and an illustration plate has been pasted preceding part one, with attendant toning to first page of part one. Brown leather with gilt titles and decoration at spine, gilt ruling at spine and panels, gilt decoration at edges. Leather lightly scuffed and scratched, light edgewear. Gilt sharp and bright. Spine square. Binding sound. The copy of James Edward Moxon, with bookplate at FFEP, and his name (dated 1939 and 1940) inked twice in the top margin of Walton's short biographical notice. Light foxing throughout, more moderate through front matter and last few pages of index. The text itself is otherwise clean and unmarked, but Wordsworth's 'Written Upon a Blank Leaf in The Complete Angler' is inked neatly at fly leaf, and the following is inked to verso of the makeshift title page, paraphrased from the third paragraph of Walton's message to the reader: 'In writing this I have made myself a recreation of a recreation: and that it might prove so, and not read dull + tediously, I have in some pla-ces mixed, not any scurrility, but some innocent, harmless mirth.' 2.5in x 4in. Photographs available upon request.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$153.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pocket size edition. 2 books bound as one. Main title page states publisher as William Pickering 1827. Part I, written by Walton and published by Pickering has a date of 1826; Part 2, written by Cotton, is published by White and also has a date of 1826. Red-brown leather, gilt titles and decoration. B/w portrait of respective authors, with facsimile signatures to each, at frontis of each part. Further b/w illustrations throughout. Condition: A little rubbing to leather. Splitting to inner hinges but text block firm. School prize inscription dated 1863 to ffep verso. A Happy New Year sticker to first blank. Extensive browning to pages, but text legible. Size: 4.5x3in / 11x8cm. 325pp. plus unpaginated Index. Weight: 140g.
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom