Lot 854
WALTON Izaak & COTTON Charles
Auction: 12 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£470
Description
The complete angler ... A bibliographical preface, giving an account of fishing and fishing-books, from the earliest antiquity to the time of Walton, and a notice of Cotton and his writings by the American editor [i.e. George W. Bethune] to which is added an appendix, including illustrative ballads, music, papers on American fishing, and the most complete catalogue of books on angling etc., ever printed ... 1st American edition, 2 parts in 1 volume, illus., 2 port. plates and 2 other engraved plates, publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt, a.e.g., slight snagging to head and tail of spine, some foxing throughout and particularly of the prelims., 8vo., New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1847
Note: Coigney no 61