Izaak Walton; The Compleat Angler; The Lives Of Donne Wotton Hooker Herbert & Sanderson

Geoffrey Keynes

A most attractive edition of 1100 for sale in England by the Nonesuch Press and 500 copies for sale in the United States by Random House Inc. This is number 153. Original full light sienna colored morocco in unblemished Fine condition, many pages still unopened. Endpapers marbled in the same paper covering the (lacking) slipcase. Top edges gilt. Coigney 303. Oliver 268. Hard to imagine a nicer copy to be had;

Includes all the writings of Walton with bibliographical and critical notes by Dr. Geoffrey Keynes, a London surgeon. The text of the Angler in this edition is from the fourth edition of 1668, Coigney 5.

Price: $290.00