London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington …, 1797. Seventh (titled Sixth) Hawkins Edition. Read More about The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man’s Recreation...With the Lives of the Authors, and...
Price: $750
London: William Pickering, 1825. Diamond Classics. Pickering ‘Angler’. The first Pickering edition of Walton’s classic; printed in diamond type by Thomas White, Johnson's Court. One of the most desirable of Pickering's Diamond Classics. Read More about The Complete Angler
Price: $275
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Poulton, Thomas, & Sigrist, Charles. Number 1253 of 1600 copies. A beautifully produced volume (the title page alone went through 27 revisions), and the first edition of Walton's complete writings. Read More about The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson; and...
Price: $600
London: Printed for James Smith, 1822. Smith edition. This is sometimes called the Gosden edition because it was believed to have been published at the expense of the famous sporting bookbinder, due to the Gosden imprint on most of the plates. This copy is somewhat shorter than those described by..... Read More about The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation …
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London: Strahan & Co, [1881]. Edition de Luxe, 250 copies printed, 150 for America, 100 for England. No. 159 of the latter issue (Strahan Edition). Read More about The Compleat Angler
Price: $1,500
York: Printed by Wilson, Spence and Mawman, 1796. First Zouch edition. Read More about The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr....
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London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington …, 1797. Seventh (titled Sixth) Hawkins edition. With the contemporary ownership signature of Lockhart Muirhead, who was Librarian of the University of Glasgow from 1795 to 1823, professor of Natural History, and the first Keeper of the Hunterian Museum, which was built in..... Read More about The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man’s Recreation...With the Lives of the Authors, and...
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London: Sampson Low, Marston [etc, 1888. The Lea and Dove (First Marston) Edition. No. 78 of 250 copies of the Royal Quarto Edition De Luxe, signed by R.B. Marston. With Emerson Photogravures. One of the most celebrated of photographically illustrated books, the “so-called 100th edition is a reissue of the..... Read More about The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation … and Instructions How to Angle for...
Price: $3,750
London: Sampson Low, Marston [etc, 1888. The Lea and Dove (First Marston) Edition. No. 125 of 500 copies of the Demi Quarto edition, signed by R.B. Marston. With Emerson Photgravures. One of the most celebrated of photographically illustrated books, the “so-called 100th edition is a reissue of the first two..... Read More about The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation … and Instructions How to Angle for...
Price: $2,500
London: John Major, 1823. First Major edition. With fore-edge painting. First impression of Major’s edition, edited by Richard Thomson and John Major. Read More about The Complete Angler …To Which Are Added, An Introductory Essay; The Linnan Arrangement of the...
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1805. Handsomely extra-illustrated with portraits, views, vignettes,et al. Read More about The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wooton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr....
Price: $1,000
London: Harrap, [1931]. Rackham, Arthur. First Trade Rackham Edition. Read More about The Compleat Angler. Or The Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers,...
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25 October 1659. Obligation and bond by Walter Fowler, Robert Pickin and Brian Lane, to John Gough of Oldfalling in Bushbury, Staffordshire for £1000, following the sale to Gough of the Priory Grounds in Bradley, Staffordshire, signed by Fowler, Pirkin and Lane, with red wax seal impressions, and signed by..... Read More about Document signed ("Izaak: Walton") as witness
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London: Printed by Tho(mas) Newcomb for Richard Marriott, 1670. First collected edition. Walton on the English Poets. First collective edition of Walton’s essential biography of seventeenth century English divines and poets. The biography of Wotton was published as part of Reliquae Wottoniane (1651); Walton’s Elegy of Donne was first published..... Read More about The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert
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London: Printed for John and Francis Rivington, (No 62), 1775. The Third Hawkins edition. With note on inserted blank, "this copy of Sir John Hawkin's edition of Walton and Cotton's Angler was the late Sir Wm. Boothby's and bought at the sale of his effects at Ashbourne Hall in Nov..... Read More about The Complete Angler ... to which are prefixed The Lives of the Authors
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London: D. Bogue, Fleet-Street and H. Wix, New Bridge-Street, 1844. The Sixth (titled 4th) Major Edition. Major produced a superb series of editions of the Complete Angler from 1823 to 1844, this being the final one. A handsome work in a handsome contemporary signed binding. Read More about The Complete Angler. Edited by John Major
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London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington …, 1797. Seventh (titled Sixth) Hawkins edition. 1797 Walton. Re-issue of the 1792 edition with a new title page. Read More about The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man’s Recreation...With the Lives of the Authors, and...
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London: John Major, 1823. First Major edition. First impression of Major’s edition, edited by Richard Thomson and John Major. Read More about The Complete Angler …To Which Are Added, An Introductory Essay; The Linnan Arrangement of the...
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London: John C. Nimmo 14, King William Street Strand, W.C, 1885. First Nimmo edition, Number 67 of only 120 copies for the English market. The publisher’s note on the verso of the half title begins: “This extra-illustrated edition of ‘The Compleat Angler’ is specially designed for collectors of this famous..... Read More about The Complete Angler …
Price: $3,000
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889. The Putnam-Nimmo Edition. Appended to this edition, with the separate London, 1889, title page of John C. Nimmo, is The Practical Fly-fisher, by John Jackson, with hand-colored plates representing 120 flies, natural and artificial. Read More about The Complete Angler …
Price: $450
London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, in the Strand, 1808. First Bagster edition, Mercier and Co. Octavo edition. Read More about The Compleat Angler; or, Contemplative Man’s Recreation
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London: Samuel Bagster, 1815. The Second Bagster Edition, LARGE PAPER COPY. An attractive large paper copy of the Second Bagster edition of Walton’s great angling pastoral. Read More about The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man’s Recreation
Price: $400
London: Printed by J.G., for Rich. Marriot, 1661. Third edition. A superior copy of this Walton, first published in 1653. The first four editions - there were five in his lifetime - remained anonymous. This third is a virtual reprint of the second edition, with an interesting alteration, however, to..... Read More about The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation ... The third edition much enlarged
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London: [Printed at the Shakespeare Press for] John Major, Fleet-Street, Adjoining Serjeant's-Inn, 1825. First Major edition. The large paper edition with the plates mounted on Japan paper. Read More about The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr....
Price: $900
