The First Nicholas Edition, Finely Bound
The Complete Angler…by Izaak Walton and…Charles Cotton…With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas.
London: William Pickering, 1836.
Price: $4,000.00
About the item
First Nicholas Edition. Engraved title-page, 48 engraved plates, two pages of music and two woodcuts of the Walton seal, 9 head-pieces, and 2 portraits of Walton. 2 vols. 4to (10 x 6-1/2 inches). Full black straight grain morocco, boards with triple gilt fillet border about a scrollwork border, the scrollwork repeated in blind, gilt lettered and panelled spine with angling motifs, dentelles gilt, a.e.g. by Rivière & Son. Expertly rebacked. Occasional very slight foxing. Fine set. Coigney 44.
Item #238589
One of the finest illustrated editions of Walton ever published. Pickering employed 27 of the most prominent artists, painters, and engravers to illustrate it.
The present copy is in a particularly attractive Rivière & Son binding.
