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Shelfmark

Lx.5.17 - Lx.5.18

Author

Title

The complete angler : or, Contemplative man's recreation, being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing / by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton; with an abridgement of the lives of the authors by Sir John Hawkins, Knt; edited, with notes from a naturalist's point of view, by J. E. Harting, Librarian of the Linnean Society, of London ; with fifty-three illustrations including etchings by Percy Thomas, R.P.E., from paintings by John Linnell, Senior, and engravings of riverside animals and birds by G. E. Lodge.

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Contemplative man's recreation, being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing

Edition

Tercentenary edition.

Publication, distribution, etc.

London : Samuel Bagster and Sons, Limited, 1893.

Physical description

2v (xx, 246 ; [4], 244p, plates) : ill. (engravings, etchings) ; 25cm.

Note

Printed at the Ballantyne Press.

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Both vols with a half-title.

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Vol 2 includes index.

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Printed in red and black.

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Paper has vertical chain lines ; watermarked.

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Publisher's vellum quarter-binding with green cloth boards ; lettering stamped in gold on spine and illustrations stamped in gold on spine and front board.

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ECL copy: No. 217 of 350 copies.

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Both vols with ms. previous shelfmark in pencil.

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Vol 1 with ms. bookseller's codes and prices in pencil.

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Both vols with previous library label on front pastedown.

Provenance

Both vols with armorial bookplate of Eton College School Library recording donation with ms. inscription: "July 1898, Major W. J. Myers".

Subject

Fishing.

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Lodge, G. E. engraver.

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England London.

Identifier

B24738
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