WALTON, Izaac (ca 1593-1683) -- COTTON, Charles (1630-1687). The Compleat Angler. Edited by R.B. Marston. London: Sampson Low, Marson, Searle and Rivington, 1888.
2 volumes, 4to (282 x 220 mm). Titles printed in red and black, frontispiece photogravure portraits, and 52 photogravure plates with lettered tissue-guards, numerous wood-engraved illustrations including 3 full-page maps. (Minor toning, light chipping.) Original half green morocco gilt, Cotton-Walton dual monogram gilt-stamped to covers, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 3 compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut (a few minor scuffs or rubbing, lower cover vol. II with bump to top edge).
LEA & DOVE DEMY QUARTO EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 22 of 500 copies, SIGNED BY MARSTON. The 100th edition of Walton's seminal work with significant biographical and scholarly additions. With plates after P.H. Emerson, George Bankart, and others. The final portion of vol. II, continually paginated, is Thomas Westwood's The Chronicle of the "Compleat Angler," with half-title and title page with the same imprint as above comprising pp.251-330.
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