THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. In Two Parts: The First Written by Mr. Isaac Walton; The Second by Charles Cotton, Esq. With The Lives of the Authors: And Notes, Historical, Critical, Supplementary and Explanatory;by Sir John Hawkins

Walton Isaac and Charles Cotton

Verlag: London for Samuel Bagster, In the Strand 1815

Beschreibung

The Bagster Edition. Illustrated with 50 plates including the Vignette half-title showing the title to the first edition, engraved portrait frontispieces of Walton and Cotton, many illustrations of fish within the text, many full page engraved plates in black and white, 2 pages of engraved music, some additional wood cuts in the text, collated complete as called for. 8vo, bound in full straight-grain green morocco, the covers with double gilt fillet rules at the borders and gilt corner pieces, the spine with raised bands, gilt ruled compartments tooled with panels in gilt and central gilt motifs of fish and fishing equipment, lettered in gilt in one compartment, watered red silk doublures and endleaves, turnovers elaborately gilt decorated with double borders in gilt and designs of fish and flies gilt within the borders, all edges gilt. [x], 514, [20 Index] pp. A fine copy, the binding is strong, the text-block and illustrations are clean and well preserved, the spine panel of the green morocco mellowed as normal. THE IMPORTANT BAGSTER EDITION IN A FINE BINDING. The Bagster printing of 1808 was the first to try an exact reprinting of the 1653 first edition. This copy in a fine binding is Bagster's edition of 1815 and is profusely illustrated. A beloved classic of the English language and what many call the finest "How-To" book ever written; Walton's ANGLER has been described as "full of wisdom, kindly humour, and charity; it is one of the most delightful and care-dispelling books in the language." "More than most authors he lives in his writings, which are the pure expression of a kind, humorous and pious soul in love with nature, while the expression itself is unique for apparent simplicity which is really elaborately studied art" (DNB). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 33794

Bibliografische Details

Titel: THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; or, Contemplative Man's...

Verlag: London for Samuel Bagster, In the Strand 1815

Einband: Hardcover