Lot 216
Angling and field sports
Collection of works, 18th-20th century, finely bound
Auction: Books & Manuscripts | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 209 to 220
Description
Walton, Izaak, & Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler: or, Contemplative Man's Recreation … The Seventh Edition, very much amended and improved. London: Henry Kent, 1759. Second Moses Browne edition, 2 parts in 1 volume, 12mo, later panelled calf, 10 engraved plates including frontispieces, woodcuts throughout, contemporary ownership inscriptions and annotations to the 2 initial blanks, final blank, and index, worming to initial blanks, small worm-hole to lower margins of part 1 (not affecting text), 2 contemporary advertisements by purveyors of angling paraphernalia bound in at front ('To all Lovers of Angling, Onesimus Ustonson … Makes all Sorts of Fishing Rods, and all Manner of the best Fishing Tackle …', 20 x 10.2cm, woodcut vignettes of a fish and crown, folding, laid down; ‘To all Lovers of Angling, Charles Kirby … do hereby declare by Engagement with Mr. Ustonson’, 25 October 1766, 13.8 x 8.2cm) [ESTC T84918; W & S pp. 220-1];
Ibid. The Complete Angler … With the Lives of the Authors, and Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. By Sir John Hawkins. London: for F. and C. Rivington, 1797. ‘Sixth’ (i.e. seventh) John Hawkins edition, 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked, half-title, 5 engraved plates (comprising 2 plates of music, and 3 depicting fishing tackle: N6 small closed tear in text [ESTC T84921; Horne 16; W & S pp. 223-4, citing a portrait of Cotton, but this unmentioned by Horne and not found in other copies examined, so perhaps supplied from another edition];
‘A Gentleman’. The Gentleman Angler … By a Gentleman, who had made Angling his Diversion upwards of Twenty-Eight Years. London: for A. Bettesworth, 1726. First edition, 12mo, 19th-century blue half calf, bound without half-title and final advertisement leaf [ESTC T57573; Westwood & Satchell pp. 104-5];
Scrope, William. The Art of Deer-Stalking; illustrated by a Narrative of a Few Day's Sport in the Forest of Atholl. London: John Murray, 1838. First edition, large 8vo, cotemporary green morocco gilt by W. Walker of Plymouth, all edges gilt, half-title, engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title-page (the latter dated 1839), 10 tinted lithographic plates with tissue-guards [Schwerdt II pp. 154-5: ‘a famous book, showing how this fascinating sport was carried on with the aid of deerhounds before modern rifles were introduced’];
Ibid. Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed. London: John Murray, 1843. First edition, large 8vo, contemporary green half morocco, all edges gilt, half-title, 13 lithographic plates including frontispiece and additional vignette title-page (mainly tinted, several hand-coloured), armorial bookplate variable spotting [Schwerdt II p. 155: ‘an equally esteemed work on Scotch sport’; W & S p. 191];
North, Roger. A Discourse of Fish and Fish-Ponds. By a Person of Honour. London: for E. Curll, 1715. Second edition, 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked, initial advertisement leaf, type-ornament headpieces, woodcut factotums and tailpieces, bound without the 2 final advertisement leaves [ESTC T95505; W & S p. 157];
Raymond, Oliver. The Art of Fishing on the Principle of Avoiding Cruelty. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1866. First edition, presentation copy on large paper, inscribed ‘[…] from H. Bull, from the author’ on the half-title, 4to, contemporary half morocco (slightly worn);
Carroll. W. The Angler's Vade Mecum. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1818. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tan half calf, half-title, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates including frontispiece, pp. [i]-vi and frontispiece working loose [W & S p. 50];
Niven, Richard. The British Angler's Lexicon. Bishop Auckland: W. J. Cummins, 1892. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed ‘To Nellie, with the authors compliments, Aug 17. 1892’ on initial blank, 4to, contemporary half morocco, frontispiece;
and 8 others similar, all leather-bound (17)