Search Results: the compleat angler or the contemplative by izaak walton 1593 1683

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

Wentworth Press, 2016-09-10. Hardcover. Used:Good.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1948. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto; Limited edition, 1114/1500; G+; Hardcover; Spine, cream with gold print; Slipcase in green paper, tear at top of spine panel, peripheral toning, light shelfwear; Volume wrapped in toned and torn cellophane; Boards quarter bound with white leather to spine and blue paper to boards, slight wear to spine caps, else clean and strong; Text block has blue tinted top edge, deckle edges with some uncut pages, light toning on pages adjacent to plates, clean and tight; Signed in ink by the illustrator on the limited edition page; xlii, 316 pages, frontispiece, illustrated (b&w). [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates.]. 1348914. FP New Rockville Stock.

Wentworth Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

HBDJ, VG+/VG, WITH SCUFF RUB TINY CHIPS TO DJ EXTREMITIES ,1962. 1st Edition , EARLY ISSUE REPRINT , SMALL LAVENDER RED with Copper gilt on Spine CvrHardcover, LARGER FORMAT. 215, 8 Pp ADS.. Illustrated dust jacket over pink cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout and visible tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and book is forward leaning. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. Notable sunning to spine and sunning to interior. TINY EDGe CREASES & back of DJ says few 500 AUTHORS ,INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET BOTTRALL, NOT ILLUSTRATED, GOLD & WHITE EL ENDPAPERS , PINK B/W Illustrated Dustjacket BY BIRO of 2 Fishing FROM WATERS BANK & BASKET OF LARGE FISH, COMMENTS ON Ancient & Modern Practice of Fishing. TREASTISE ON ANGLING. ENSURES HIS LITERARY IMMORTALITY. IT INSTRUCTS AMUSES MEDIFIES, work begins with Londoners making a fishing trip up the Lea Valley in Hertfordshire, starting… Read More

HBDJ, 1939. 1st Edition , EARLY ISSUE REPRINT WITH PASTED STICKER ON PG SHOWING WALTONS FACE & SMALL BIO. ,Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine. BACK OF DJ MENTIONS FEW 500 AUTHORS , Xliv, 215, 8 Pp ADS. Orange EMBOSSEDCloth, Gilt on Spine cvr.. Excellent Edition With A Long Introduction By Lang. In Unusually Well Preserved Condition: Book Is Fine-, Former Owner's Information On Front Endpaper But No Wear Or Damage; A Blurb On Walton, With His Photo And Short Bio, Is Neatly Pasted Beneath The Copyright Information And Looks To Be On Paper Similar To The Dj . Dj Is Near Fine, Just A Trace Of Rubbing Right On A Few Points At Top And Bottom Edges, Very Slightbronwing/Fading To Spine.

London, New York & Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. First Trade Edition with Illustrations by James Thorpe. large 8vo. pp. [xvi], [167]. 25 tipped-in colour plates after designs by James Thorpe. tissue guards with legends. original gilt-stamped cloth (stain to upper & lower edge of rear cover)

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.

London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1931. [Fishing] leather-bound FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.224. With 12 chromolithographic plates, and occasional in-text illustrations by Rackham. Recent navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the original publisher's cloth over boards, with gilt pictorial titles to upper. Original pictorial endpapers to front; top edge gilt. A clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Using the text of the 1897 Bodley Head edition, being the text of the 1676 edition with modernised spellings.

London : George G. Harrap & Co., (1931). First Rackham edition. The great classic of angling literature, here delightfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. "A very attractive volume which (unlike some 'gift books') can be read with pleasure as well as looked at" (Yorkshire Post, 2nd December 1931). Crown 4to (240 x 177mm). (224)pp. Twelve tissue-guarded colour plates. Illustrations in text. Bound in a fine slightly later (mid twentieth-century) half green crushed morocco by Frost & Co. of Bath, banded and gilt with a variety of angling motifs in compartments; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; a few slight spots; frontispiece tissue slightly creased, but overall a handsome copy.

London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1931. FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.224. Publisher's blue-green cloth, gilt to spine and upper board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated dustwrapper. With twelve tissue-guarded colour plate illustrations. Internally clean and fine. Jacket with a short creased tear to upper (sunned beneath same), titles faded to spine else clean and bright. A striking copy.

London St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington Limited, 1888. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. CARLESS F.. Limited Demy Quarto Edition to commemorate the 100th edition of The Compleat Angler! Two volumes in half green morocco over green cloth, some gilt tooling, gilt titles to upper boards, corners & edges worn. Spines, rubbed, raised bands, gilt titles. Internally Vol 1, half title, portrait frontis, [7], (viii-xcvii), [3], [3], (d-t), [1], [1], 2-118. Portrait frontis, [2], 119-357 pp. 54 pls, 87 illustrations plus 3 maps, errata leaf tipped to half title V1, each pl with printed guard, t.e.c, remainder uncut. Wood engravings by Mr. F. Carless & engraved by Mr. F. Alphonse Stankowski; photogravures by P.H. Emerson & George Bankart. (views on the Lea and Dove-those on the Lea by Mr. P. H. Emerson, B.A., & those on the Dove by Mr. George Bankart). VG (286*225 mm). The present edition reprints… Read More

London: Printed and Sold by Henry Kent, 1759., 1759. 12mo. pp. xxiv, 340, [8]index. 10 engraved plates by H.Burgh (incl. frontis.), 1 page of music, 1 woodcut headpiece (fishing scene) & 15 woodcuts of fish. woodcut tailpiece & initial. contemporary calf, rebacked (some scattered foxing & soiling). Second Moses Browne Edition. It is 28 pages longer than the first Moses Browne edition of 1750; the notes have been enlarged, the preface has been rewritten, some of the poetry has been changed, four new plates have been added and the other six have been re-engraved. Coigney 8. Westwood & Satchell pp. 220-21. Blakey p. 332. Slater p. 28. cfRobb p. 213. cfStarkman & Read 110..