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.
Varying form of title
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.
Note
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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Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 former owner.
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Thomas, Percy, 1846 - 1922 etcher.
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Linnell, John, 1729 - 1796 artist.
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Lodge, G. E. engraver.
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England London.
Identifier
B24738