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Walton, Izaak; Cotton, Charles.
Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation.
Publisher: Freemantle & Company, London;
Date of Publication: 1902
Stock Code: 10366
First Dewar edition. Quarto, two vols: pp., lxviii, 169, [170], [2]; [2], ix, [1], 232. Illustrated with 10 full-page and 11 small etchings by William Strang, including frontispiece portraits; 19 full-page and 18 small etchings by D. Y. Cameron; 10 unsigned cuts of fish, 2 pages of music, and 2 facsimiles, one folding. Bound in the original sage green bevelled publisher’s cloth with gilt armourial centrepiece to upper boards and gilt titles to spine. Top-edges gilt. Cloth soiled to bottoms and lightly sunned to spine. Small neat ownership name to front paste-down, and offsetting to endpapers as usual else contents are clean and bright with tissue guards present. A Very Good set. First printing of the first Freemantle edition, (a reissue was published later in the same year) with this copy having the first edition issue point of “Freemantle & Co.” in gilt to foot of the spine instead of “Lippincott”. £150.00