The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man’s Recreation...With the Lives of the Authors, and Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory.
London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington …, 1797.
Price: $600.00
About the item
Seventh (titled Sixth) Hawkins edition. Illustrated with 3 plates of fishing tackle, 2 plates of music, 3 woodcuts in text. lxxvi, 264, xxxii, 112, [10] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original spine and red leather label. Half title present. Contemporary ownership signature. Occasional pencil notes, some rubbing. Coigney 16.
Item #40756
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 1807 to house the collections bequeathed to the University by William Hunter, distinguished anatomist and Physician Extraordinary to Queen Charlotte.
