The Complete Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. de Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton (Edited by John Major) - 1889

NY: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Published circa 1880. The boards show some edgewear with rubbing. An ex-library copy with the usual markings.

John C. Nimmo., 1889. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1889. No Edition Remarks. 445 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Hinges are slightly cracked with exposed netting. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed gilt. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

London: D. Bogue, 1844. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated "Fourth Edition". Octavo. 418, [1] pp. Bound in japon with black morocco spine label gilt. Neat early owner's name, small split in upper front joint, a little overall soiling, a handsome very good copy.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861. Hardcover. Very Good. Second printing (1861). Octavo. xix, [3], 496, [2] pp. Rebound in maroon cloth by Joseph J. Schultz & Co., all edges marbled. Illustrated with 26 steel engraved plates and 203 wood engravings. 18 cm. The cloth binding is detached along the back inner hinge and loose at the front inner hinge between the frontispiece portrait of Walton and the letterpress title page, else very good with the text bblock tight, with very clean and bright engravings on steel and wood. First published in 1856, this is the second printing of the Edward Jesse edition. Cotton's work comprises the second part with a separate title page and frontispiece, and is titled, "The complete angler: being instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream." A near fine copy from the library of the American wood-engraver John DePol, with his wood engraved bookplate on the front pastedown.