Lot 849
WALTON Izaak & COTTON Charles
Auction: 12 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£647
Description
The complete angler ... with the lives of the authors and notes, historical, supplementary, and explanatory by Sir John Hawkins ... 9th edition, engraved port. frontis., 14 engraved plates, contemporary calf, covers with a central gilt cartouche formed by dolphins (based on the titlepage of the first edition), blind ruled border with gilt fishing reels at each corner, spine decorated gilt in compartments with piscatorial devices, by Gosden, neatly rebacked, with original backstrip laid down, some instances of foxing, London: Smith, 1822
Note: Westwood & Satchell p. 225; Coigney no 22