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Walton, Izaak; Cotton Charles
Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation.
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company, Boston;
Date of Publication: 1892
Stock Code: 10320
Fifth Lowell edition. Octavo, 2 vols. pp. lxxvi, 208; vi, [1], 210- 465, [1]. Illustrated throughout with 4 etchings (frontispiece and title-page of each volume) with tissue guards, and 74 wood engravings. Bound in maroon half morocco and marbled paper over boards with fillet rolls to edges of morocco; 5 raised spine bands with gilt ruled compartments and gilt spine titles. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Matching marbled endpapers. Morocco slightly faded to spine with miniscule chip to top spine tips. Binding tight, square and clean. Contents clean and bright 3 attractive illustrated ex-libris of former owners to front endpapers, free from ownership inscriptions or annotations. A Near Fine set. Handsomely bound copy of Walton’s celebration of the art of fishing in prose and verse. As much a philosophical treatise as a work on fishing, the Complete Angler emphasises the contemplative and meditation respite to be found in the sport and in the wider pastoral environment. His views on the individual’s relationship with nature eloquently speak to many concerns we have today. £250.00