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IDB Productions, 2017-01-01. MP3 CD. New. The Compleat Angler is a festivity of the craft and essence of fishing in text and poetry. Izaak Walton did not admit to be skilled with the fly, however, in the practice of a real worm, the grasshopper and the frog, Piscator could talk as a boss. There were primarily only two converses in the first scene, Piscator and Viator; but in the 2nd edition, as if in response to a protest that Piscator had it profligately in his way in admiration of fly-fishing, he begun the falconer, Auceps, varied Viator into Venator and created the new friends every distending on the delights of his well-loved hobby. </br></br>The Compleat Angler was first issued in 1653, but Izaak still added to it for a term of a century. 6 poems were mentioned from John Dennys's 1613 oeuvre The Secrets of Angling. It was offered to John Offley, his very respected confidant. There was a 2nd edition in 1655, a 3rd in 1661 similar with that of 1664, a 4th in 1668 and a 5th in… Read More

London, England: London, UK: Bloomsbury, 1988, 1st Bloomsbury Edition, First Printing, 1988. -----------( 1st printing of this Bloomsbury edition ) hardcover, a Near Fine/Fine example in a Near Fine/Fine dustjacket, 12 colour plates plus b&w illustrations by Rackham, a nice edition, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine (see desciption)/Near Fine (see description). Illus. by Arthur Rackam. 7.75w x 9.5h Inches. NOT Price Clipped.

Paperback. New.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Wrappers dust-toned. Minor browning to the pages. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 149 p.; ill.; 20 cm. Subjects: Fishing Early works to 1800. Angling Early worksAngling. Genre: Sport & Physical Education. Philosophy.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1982. 6th Impression. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: The World's Classics. Physical description: xxxiv, 379p : ill., facsims. ; 19cm. Subjects: Fishing.

Paperback / softback. New.

London : Cassell and Co., 1909. 1st edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn; panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Front board detached. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 344 pp., illustrations. Subjects; Fishing ; Early works to 1800.

Hardback. New.

GB: London & New York, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1897. Paleg green decorated cloth. Decorative bookplate of Richard Pearse Chope. Clean tight book with minor spotting mostly to edges and early and late leaves. Hinges crcaked but covers holding well. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY Packed weight 1600g. . Hardback. VG-/No DW.

The Easton Press. bonded_leather. New. 10x7x1. As new clean tight and bright Easton Press with notes laid in. D66 Please email for photos.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited edition, this is number 41 out of fifteen hundred copies signed by the illustrator. Folio. Approximate measurements: 9" x 13". 316pp. "How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream", by Charles Cotton. Introduction by James Russell Lowell. Illustrated by Douglas W. Gorsline. Decorated blue papercovered boards with white vellum spine. Some pages unopened, title on worn spine eroded and cracked, very good housed in a good only sunned slipcase with joints torn. Signed and numbered by Douglas W. Gorsline on the limitation page.

Hodder and Stoughton. Acceptable. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Fair with color illustrations by James Thorpe. No dust jacket. Wear to cover and spine, scored and frayed. Pages tanning and a few lightly soiled or marked. Color illustrations are good, with some creasing and wear. 10 inches. 167 pages.

HBDJ, VG+/VG, WITH SCUFF RUB TINY CHIPS TO DJ EXTREMITIES ,1962. 1st Edition , EARLY ISSUE REPRINT , SMALL LAVENDER RED with Copper gilt on Spine CvrHardcover, LARGER FORMAT. 215, 8 Pp ADS.. Illustrated dust jacket over pink cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout and visible tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and book is forward leaning. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. Notable sunning to spine and sunning to interior. TINY EDGe CREASES & back of DJ says few 500 AUTHORS ,INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET BOTTRALL, NOT ILLUSTRATED, GOLD & WHITE EL ENDPAPERS , PINK B/W Illustrated Dustjacket BY BIRO of 2 Fishing FROM WATERS BANK & BASKET OF LARGE FISH, COMMENTS ON Ancient & Modern Practice of Fishing. TREASTISE ON ANGLING. ENSURES HIS LITERARY IMMORTALITY. IT INSTRUCTS AMUSES MEDIFIES, work begins with Londoners making a fishing trip up the Lea Valley in Hertfordshire, starting… Read More

London: for Samuel Bagster by R. Watts, 1815. The eighth edition, being Bagster's Second Edition, 1815. Contemporary leather at spine with brown cloth-covered boards. Good only, light to moderate foxing throughout, boards splitting at spine, 1846 dated gift inscription front endpage, a few instances of period marginal pencilling, which is fading. Overall a good candidate for rebinding.. Eighth Edition . Leather Spine/Cloth Boards. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1927. Reprint of the 1899 edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 367 pages; Physical desc. : ill. , tissue guards 26 cm. Subject: Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683. - The compleat angler - Bibliography. Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683. - Compleat angler - Bibliography. Fishing. Notes: The first part of The compleat angler was published in 1653. Cotton's second part appeared for the first time with the fifth edition of the former in 1678.

Thomas Tegg,, 1826. 2 vols. in 1., 16mo., Second Tegg Edition, with an engraved frontispiece [of 2], 2 engraved title-vignettes, and 30 woodcut illustrations (the majority of fish) in the text, endpapers lightly age-stained; strongly bound in nineteenth-century full speckled calf, sides with gilt frame border, very neatly rebacked in calf to style, back with four raised bands, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled in gilt, a very good, bright, crisp copy. WITH THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN [NOT THE PLAYWRIGHT] ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Includes the lives of the authors. A reprint of the 1797 Hawkins edition with neat woodcuts designed by W. Harvey and engraved by Williams and Thompson. Tragically, this copy wants the engraved frontispiece to Part I. Coigney 22; Horne 33, Westwood & Satchell p.226.

London: for Samuel Bagster by R. Watts. 1815., 1815. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. First printing of Bagster's Second Edition (8th since originally published) with an expanded index. Two parts in one. 514 pp. + extensive index, 50 plates indexed (some full-page on heavy stock), 8vo, original full leather binding with gilt edge-decorations to boards, raised bands, gilt spine titles and decorations. Contents complete with moderate foxing as usual, frontis port torn but neatly repaired. Rear hinge is intact but front hinge badly split and poorly repaired. Could benefit from binding repair. A Fair copy overall.

London: George Harrap & Co, 1931. 1st Edition (Thus). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Super octavo (8vo 7 × 11 178 × 279). Arthur Rackham. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1931 1st Edition (Thus) , THE COMPLEAT ANGLER By Izaak Walton Izaak Walton (baptised 21 September 1593 – 15 December 1683) was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies including one of his friend John Donne. They have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives. Illustrated By: Arthur Rackham Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. He is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator.… Read More

John Major, Fleet-Street, adjoining Serjeant's-Inn,, 1823. 8vo., First Major Edition, with copper-engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title-vignette, 13 fine copper-engraved plates (including 2 of music scores) and 77 woodcut illustrations and decorations in the text, some light offsetting from frontispiece to title, some very light and inoffensive spotting to some margins, neat later nineteenth century inscription on blank preliminary; most attractively bound in mid-nineteenth full speckled brown calf, boards with decorative gilt frame border, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment with black leather label framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, marbled edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, joints lightly rubbed, short splits in joints at head and tail (but binding wholly sound), an attractive copy of a perennial classic in period binding. The first Major edition is based on the fifth edition of 1676, the last… Read More

UK: Nonesuch Press, 1929. Book. Illus. by Thomas Poulton & Charles Sigrist. VG+. Hardcover. Limited. Full leather with minor wear to the spine thus very good plus. Slipcase has modest wear rates very good. Limited edition # 672 of 1100 with 500 copies for sale in the US. Interestingly, despite the relatively large number of volumes printed, this is a hard book to fine. .