The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish & Fishing.
London: Printed for R[ichard] Marriot, and are to be sold by Charles Harper at his shop, 1668.
Price: $10,000.00
About the item
Fourth edition. Engraved cartouche on the title-page, and ten small copperplates of fish in the text. 1 vols. Small 8vo (5-5/8 x 3-5/8 inches; 142 x 85 mm). Bound in contemporary mottled calf, leather title label in red, front joint split, but holding. Bookplate of Leeds. Brown calf-backed slipcase and cloth chemise. Coigney 5; Horne 5; Oliver 5; Pforzheimer 1051; Westwood & Satchell, p. 219; Wing W665.
Item #240277
Excellent copy of this Walton, first published in 1653. The first four editions — there were five in his lifetime — remained anonymous.
