Walton, Izaak
The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert
£450
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
London: Richard Marriott, 1670. First edition, 8vo, copperplate portraits of subjects, annotated in Walton's hand, contemporary calf rebacked with new spine, ink inscriptions and small label to free endpaper, slight loss to edge of title page, some dust-soiling, short tears to edge of three leaves, slight worming to fore-margin of six leaves (not effecting text), front and back hinges worn, short hinge crack to head of spine, with gilt morocco clamshell box
Footnote
Note: With twelve autograph annotations by Izaak Walton.
A collection of books from the Izaak Walton library of Robert Guiver
The following 27 lots represent a remarkable collection of books dedicated to the life and works of Sir Izaak Walton, his colleague Charles Cotton, and the subjects of their studies and biographies.
Walton dedicated forty years of his life to compiling and improving his most famous work, The Compleat Angler, spending many hours in the company of clergymen and men of leisure who enjoyed fishing. The Compleat Angler has become perhaps the most famous, and most published, angling work of all time