Item #62107 The Compleat Angler. Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish and Fishing not unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Izaak WALTON, Charles COTTON, Arthur RACKHAM.

The Compleat Angler. Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish and Fishing not unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1931. [Illustrated] leather-bound First Rackham Edition. Large octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.224. With 12 colour plates plus black and white illustrations in text. Finely bound in later blue half morocco with gilt titles and decoration to spine, original publisher's boards with decorative titles stamped in gilt to upper; top edge gilt. Original pictorial endpapers bound in to front. Some minor toning to decorative endpapers, contents clean, binding pleasingly aged with some sunning to spine and rear. Near fine. Using the text of the 1897 Bodley Head edition, being the text of the 1676 edition with modernised spellings. Item #62107

Price: £325.00

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