The Compleat Angler 1653-1967, A New Bibliography

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Bibliophiles; distributed by the University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (lightly rubbed / NO chips or tears). The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT price clipped ($25.00). Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO foxing. 1970. First Edition. Limited to 500 hand numbered copies (of which 300 were bound), this being #477. Illustrated with numerous title page facsimiles. Full color tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Izaak Walton. Full descriptions for 385 editions of Izaak Walton's classic. Identifies imprint, size, collation, pagination, binding, locations, detailed notes, etc. Bound in the original green cloth, stamped in bright gold over a black panel on the spine. From the dust jacket: "Published by The Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, this is the first comprehensive bibliography of Izaak Walton s THE COMPLEAT ANGLER to appear since 1936. It is based on a study of copies in the compiler's personal collection and those at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge, Trinity College, Dublin, and such other repositories as the Library of Congress, the Bodleian Library, and the British Museum. Mr. Horne provides a bibliographical description and supplemental material for each entry, including translations published in other countries. Twenty-eight plates of title-pages and bindings are shown. The four-color frontispiece reproduces Jacob Huysmans' portrait of Walton. In addition to providing corrected entries for the 280 editions and reprints treated in the 1936 bibliography, the book includes new accounts for 20 editions not carried in that work plus 106 editions and reprints published since then. The late Bernard S. Horne, a bibliophile and Izaak Walton scholar, owned the largest known collection of Walton's ANGLER.". First Edition, 500 numbered copies. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 370pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.