£2,875
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 659
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
The Complete Angler... London: Samuel Bagster, 1808. 4to, 19th century green morocco gilt; The Complete Angler. London: William Pickering, 1836. Large 8vo, 2 volumes, green morocco gilt with tooled fish and cottage motifs; The Complete Angler. London: Nattali and Boyd, 1860. Large 8vo, 2 volumes, green half morocco gilt; Major, John, editor The Complete Angler. London: John C. Nimmo, 1885. 4to, number 15 of 120 copies, contemporary green morocco with gilt fish motifs to spine, neatly rebacked; another copy, number 30 of 120, in contemporary red panelled morocco gilt; The Complete Angler. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891. 8vo, 20th century red half morocco gilt; The Complete Angler.... London: Samuel Bagster and Sons Limited, 1893. 8vo, 2 volumes, tricentenary edition, number 271 of 350 copies, original quarter vellum gilt; The Compleat Angler. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1897. 8vo, brown half morocco gilt by Riviere; The Compleat Angler [and] The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. 8vo, number 563 of 1100 copies, brown calf gilt, slipcase; The Complete Angler... Nottingham Court Press, 1983. 8vo, number 3 of 200 copies, of which this is one of fifty in green morocco gilt with a fishing fly attached to the upper cover, clamshell box; and 3 others (16)