Shelfmark
Iaa3.3.06
Author
Uniform title
[The compleat angler]
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 Esq. ; with biographical and elucidatory notes, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt., illustrated by several finely engraved portraits, views, fish, &c.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Thomas Gosden, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, MDCCCXXV [1825].
Physical description
lx, 384 p., leaves of plates : ill. (engravings), ports. ; 20 cm.
Note
Illustrations within the text pasted in.
Note
Includes index.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College School Library recording donation: "Major General Villiers Hatton" (typed).
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Villiers Hatton.
Binding
19th century carved wooden boards covered with green leather, with medallions in each corner and in the centre of both boards, gilt tooling, gilt lettering on spine, marbled endpapers, and edges gilt ; bound by Thomas Gosden (binder's stamp on front turn-in) ; housed in green cloth box with gilt on tan leather lettering pieces.
Subject
Fishing.
Added entry--name
Gosden, Thomas, 1780 - 1843 publisher.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B26882