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Lovell, Coryell, and Company. Later printing. Hardcover. Good/No dust jacket as issued. No copyright date, c. 1890s. Navy blue cloth boards with, gilt lettering on the spine. Some wear to the boards and edges, corners rubbed. Text and images are unmarked. Sticker ghosts on the front pastedown and FFEP. Edge of text block age toned. 16mo. 354pp.

Collins' Clear-type Press, London, z.j.. Hardcover. Binnenzijde voorkaft en schutblad kleine beschadiging. Rug verkleurd. Vlekjes op voor- en achterkaft.

Kiefer Press, 07/23/2015. Paperback. Used; Good. **WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON, UK, 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

London. Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. 1877. Octavo (6 1/2 x 5). [i-v], vi-x, [16], [1]-246 pp. A near precise facsimile printing of the 1653 first edition. With six engravings of fish and two pages of music. The book is bound in the publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. See Coigney 100. A very good book with light wear to the spine ends and a previous owner’s armorial bookplate on the front paste down. .

Paperback / softback. New.

London. Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E. C. [n.d., but 1880]. [i-v], vi-x, [16], [1]-246 pp. Duodecimo (6 x 3 1/2). This is the third Stock facsimile, without a publication date on the title page. It includes a facsimile of the 1653 title page. Six engravings of fish in the text. You can check out Rodolphe Coigney’s bibliography on Walton and his description of this book on pages 92-93, 102-103 for a consummate distillation on its publication. There’s a nineteenth century wet fly laid-in the book. The book is bound in contemporary full brown morocco with yapped edges and the letters "IZ WA" in gilt on the front cover, with slender red silk ties. A little foxing to the preliminaries, and there’s a small St. Charles College library label on the front end paper. Very good..

Literary Licensing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: Chatto And Windus, Piccadilly, 1875 .. A very good original binding. 8vo. 19cm x 13cm x 2.5cm. pp.cci/pp.202 - 205/[3pp.]/pp.320/pp.40 - ("List of Books Published By for Chatto & Windus..." dated November 1874). Original maroon cloth. Gilt title to front board. Gilt titles and black leather title label to spine, carefully rebacked. Later endpapers. Portrait frontis of Walton (from a picture by Houseman). Engraved title-page designed by T. Stothard, R.A. : "The Complete Angler, Or Contemplative Mans Recreation. The first part by Izaak Walton., the second by Charles Cotton." Previous owner's signature to top margin: "H. J. Birley, 23 Sep. 1876." Printed title dated 1875. Clean text and illustrations throughout. A well preserved copy.

Chicago; A. C. McClurg and Company, 1893. [i.e. 1892]., 1893. Hard Cover. First Mclurg edition. Large paper copy, number 163 in a limited edition of 500 copies only. Frontispiece of Walton, and illustrated border scenes throughout. Bound in the original publisher's linen cloth blocked in dark green and gilt to upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. With the illustrated bookplate of "Arthur G. Rippey, Denver" to the front paste-down. Miniscule bump to bottom corner and cloth ever so slightly soiled else a neat, square, clean copy free from inscriptions or annotations. Walton's classic guide to meditative angling. With beautifully illustrated green borders displaying 16 different fishing scenes, designed and signed by Schmedgten. Coigney: 163. Oliver: 149.

London:: Printed for Samuel Bagster,, 1808.. Seventh edition. First Bagster edition.. 8vo.. Quarter modern calf over marbled boards gilt rules to spine and title on black label. Fine binding. A few plates with minor foxing but overall a very nice copy clean and crisp with large margins. Seventeen full-page plates and numerous text illustrations. One of the most often reprinted books in English literature and the most famous book on fishing ever printed. A celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. It was first published in 1653 and Walton continued to add to it for a quarter of a century. In 1676 Charles Cotton, Waltons friend and fellow angler added to his work and completed his instruction in fly fishing and the making of flies.

London: Elliot Stock, 1877. Finely bound facsimile reprint of the first edition of this classic of English literature. Octavo, bound in full mottled calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With a fore-edge painting of Walton and an angling scene. In near fine condition. A unique example. The Complete Angler, first published in 1653, has become a classic of English literature. Where other angling books are of limited appeal to those who do not fish, The Complete Angler inspires readers from all walks of life to go in search of the timeless English countryside that Walton evokes with such love.

London: William Pickering, 1836. First Nicolas edition of this classic of English literature. Quarto, two volumes bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with engraved frontispieces and plates. In near fine condition. Bookplate. A superb example of this classic work. Although it was originally intended as a practical guide for fisherman, Walton's Complete Angler stands as one of the finest examples of long prose-pastoral in the English language and is widely considered a classic of English literature. "This superb edition contains the variations of all the first five editions, voluminous notes, with original and elaborate memoirs of Walton and Cotton, presenting many new facts" (Westwood Satchell).