The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation
by Izaak Walton & Charles Cotton
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Good. No dust jacket.
- Seller
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Damariscotta, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company. 1927. Edited by John Major. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket.. E.P. Dutton & Company. 1927. Quarto, 367 pp. First Daglish Edition. Hand made paper. Deckle edges. 16 plates tipped in. Labeled tissue guards. This is the E. Fitch Daglish edition reprinted from John Major's first edition published in 1823. Bound with cloth spine and tan paper over boards with a wood engraving of a leaping fish pasted on the front. Patterned endpapers. Sixteen beautiful wood engravings of birds and fish by Daglish printed on India paper and tipped onto blank leaves, with captioned tissue guards. Eric Fitch Daglish (1894-1966) was an important illustrator of books on natural history. This is the First American edition thus, using the sheets of the English edition of the same year. Text is clean on pages with some age-tanning. Binding is bumped on bottom of spine and there are minor smudges on the boards. Name of previous owner inked on first blank page. Lacking dust wrapper. Overall, a nice copy of a scarce book. .
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- Bookseller
- Damariscotta Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0000009
- Title
- The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation
- Author
- Izaak Walton & Charles Cotton
- Illustrator
- E. Firtch Daglish, F.Z.S.
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. No dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edited by John Major
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Fishing, Walton, Dagllish
Terms of Sale
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Prompt returns accepted for full refund (less shipping) if in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Damariscotta Books
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Damariscotta, Maine
About Damariscotta Books
Small inventory of select books on variety of subjects with particular emphasis to books on antiques, decorative arts, travel, history and cooking.
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