London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. Thorpe, James. First Thorpe edition. Number 98 of 250 copies of the edition... Read More about The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation ... [with preface, "A Preliminary Cast"...
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[N.p: Privately Printed, 1845]. First edition, one of 25 large paper copies printed. One of 25 Copies, Inscribed to His Wife. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on half-title “To the most beloved from John L. Anderdon, 7th Nov. 1845”, of this colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and..... Read More about The River Dove; With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling, near to the Seat of...
Price: $10,000
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: 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: George G. Harrap, [1931]. Rackham, Arthur. First Rackham edition, one of 775 numbered and signed by Rackham. A Superb Copy of Rackham's "Angler" Of all the Rackham books, one of the most delightful and sought after, and a gem for any Walton collector. Rackham was a key figure in..... Read More about The Compleat Angler
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London: [Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars], 1821. First edition. Rare. Includes a pictorial membership card for "True Waltonian Society", issued to William Miller on January 10th, 1843, signed by the Honorary Secretary J.C. Burney tipped onto front pastedown. Rare. Read More about Rules and Regulations of the Walton and Cotton Club, Instituted 19th March, 1817
Price: $5,500
London: Printed only for Thomas Hope, 1760. Ninth edition. First Hawkins edition. Beautiful Contemporary Binding. Edited by John Hawkins who also wrote the Life of Walton. The Life of Cotton is by W. Oldys. "This edition came into competition with that issued by Browne in the previous year, and gave..... Read More about The Complete Angler: or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds,...
Price: $1,750
London: Printed for J. Rivington … T. Caslon … and R. Withy, 1766. Second Hawkins Edition. Second Hawkins Edition, Distinguished Provenance. Westwood & Satchell note that the engraver was subsequently hanged for forgery. WIth the morocco labels of Henry W. Poor (New York collector whose library was sold by the..... Read More about The Complete Angler ... To which is now prefixed The Lives of the Authors and Notes Historical,...
Price: $1,250
London: Printed for J. Rivington ... T. Caslon ... and R. Withy, 1766. Second Hawkins edition (Title page of part II is dated 1760). Westwood & Satchell note that the engraver was subsequently hanged for forgery. Read More about The Complete Angler ... To which is now prefixed The Lives of the Authors and Notes Historical,...
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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
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London: Printed for S. Bagster, in the Strand, 1810. Bagster's facsimile of the 1653 First edition. The Bagster Facsimile, 1810. A lovely copy of this fine Bagster ("so-called", according to Coigney) facsimile of the 1653 Walton - the first attempt to reproduce the charm of the original edition. Read More about The Compleat Angler
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London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, in the Strand, 1808. First Bagster edition, with half-title and ads. Read More about The Compleat Angler
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London: John Major, 1824; 1825. Second Major edition of first title; First Major edition of second title. Read More about The Compleat Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton ... to which is added an Introductory...
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London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, [1930]. One of 250 copies for sale in the British Empire, signed by the artist. Read More about The Compleat Angler or Contemplative Man’s Recreation … Decorated by Frank Adams
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London: Printed for R[ichard] Marriot, and are to be sold by Charles Harper, 1668. Fourth edition. Excellent copy of this Walton, first published in 1653. The first four editions - there were five in his lifetime - remained anonymous. Read More about The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers,...
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London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, in the Strand, 1808. First Bagster edition. Read More about The Compleat Angler …
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London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, in the Strand, 1808. First Bagster edition, Mercier and Co. Octavo edition. Read More about The Compleat Angler …
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London; New York: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd.; Dodd, Mead, [1931]. Seventh Le Gallienne Edition. The Le Gallienne edition, with particularly pleasing illustrations and vignettes. Read More about The Compleat Angler. Edited with an Introduction by Richard Le Gallienne
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1875. Third Nicolas Edition. A compact, pleasing edition, with the illustrations of the first Nicolas edition (1836), here printed all on separate leaves. Read More about The Complete Angler ... with original memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas
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Chiswick: Printed by C. and C. Whittingham ... Sold by Thomas Tegg, 1826. Second Tegg (14th Hawkins) edition. Read More about The Complete Angler of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1875. Third Nicolas Edition. A compact, pleasing edition, with the illustrations of the first Nicolas edition (1836), here printed all on separate leaves. Read More about The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir...
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London: John, Francis, and Charles Rivington, 1784. Fourth Hawkins edition. Pretty copy of this engagingly illustrated edition, a reprint of the earlier Hawkins editions, except here the Life of Cotton by Oldys has been replaced by Hawkins' own. Read More about The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation ... In Two Parts ... With The Lives of...
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London: John, Francis, and Charles Rivington, 1784. Fourth Hawkins Edition. Nice copy of this edition, a reprint of the earlier Hawkins editions, except here the Life of Cotton by Oldys has been replaced by Hawkins’ own. Read More about The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man’s Recreation … In Two Parts … With The Lives of...
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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...
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Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1889. Harlow. First Lowell edition, large paper copy, no. 128 of 150 copies. Read More about The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation ... With an introduction by James...
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London: D. Bogue, Fleet-Street and H. Wix, New Bridge-Street, 1844. The Sixth (titled 4th) Major edition, Large Paper Copy. LARGE PAPER COPY, WITH PROOFS. Major produced a fine series of editions of the Complete Angler from 1823 to 1844, this being the final one. This copy has a set of..... Read More about The Complete Angler. Edited by John Major
Price: $2,000