Lot 156
Walton, Izaak
Four 19th century editions of The Compleat Angler
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
1) London: Samuel Bagster, 1808. Large 8vo (22.6 x 13cm), contemporary straight-grain calf, rebacked with spine containing gilt angling motifs to compartments, half-title with woodcut vignette, 17 engraved plates including portrait frontispiece, extra-illustrated with 17 hand-coloured engraved proof plates of the vignettes of fish printed in the text [Westwood & Satchell p. 224];
2) London: Henry G. Bohn, 1856. 8vo, later black half morocco, 26 engraved plates, front joint worn, half-title detached [Westwood & Satchell p. 232];
3) London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861. 8vo, later half calf, 2 engraved portraits, numerous wood-engraved vignettes bound without the steel-engravings as often [Westwood & Satchell p. 233-4, cf. p. 232];
4) Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1889. One of 500 copies, 2 volumes, near-contemporary green quarter morocco, 2 engraved portraits, etched title-page vignettes and 13 plates (all on india paper, mounted), inner hinges strengthened