[Cosway Style Binding] - Walton, Izaak Y
The Complete Angler
£2,500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
London: Henry Washbourne, 1842. 8vo, portrait, 13 engraved plates and engraved title for section ii, extra-illustrated with hand-drawn and coloured frontispiece, three hand-drawn and coloured plates and four illuminated borders, "Cosway" style binding by Riviere in brown morocco gilt, very neatly rebacked and retaining original spine, with miniature glazed portraits of Walton and Cotton painted on ivory to the upper cover, renewed silk endpapers, slight soiling to a few pages, offsetting from one illuminated leaf, possible slight dampstaining to lower cover
Footnote
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