Lot #1173 - Book Izaak Walton
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Auction House:Davidson Auctions
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Sale Name:Estate & Collector
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Sale Date:02 Aug 2014 ~ 10am: Part 1 - Various Collections - Lots 1 - 522
02 Aug 2014 ~ 2.30pm: Part 2 - The David Spode Collection - Lots 601 - 1326 -
Lot #:1173
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Lot Description:Book Izaak Walton
WALTON, Izaak and Charles COTTON. The Complete Angler or Contemplative Man's Recreation Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. ...Edited, with notes...by J.E.Harting.Tercentenary Edition.London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1893. Two volumes. 53 iillustrations after Alexander, Thomas, Wale, Samuel, Linnell, Lely, and Huysmun with engravings after drawings of riverside animals and birds by G. E. Lodge, all with guard sheets, Title pages printed in red and black, red decorated initials to chapters, top edges gilt, others uncut, xix,245,(4),243,(1)pp., large 8vo., 260 x 200mm., publisher's quarter vellum and green cloth, gilt vignette of heron on front boards, and gilt design of fish on spines. Pastedowns and facing flyleaf lightly browned/foxed, rear flyleaf in vol.1 with vertical creases, 3 tiny splash marks in margin and titling of frontis. portrait in vol.2. otherwise clean, near-fine copies.No.91 of a large-paper edition of 350 copies. -
Estimate:A$150 - 200
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Realised Price:
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Category:Books & Manuscripts
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