Lot 114
114
WALTON, IZAAK. The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. London: by T. M. for Rich. Marriot 1655. 12mo, 137 x 77mm. (5 3/8 x 3 1/16), nineteenth-century green morocco gilt, spine blind-tooled and gilt-lettered, g.e., spine faded, inner joints cracked, extremities very slightly rubbed, title soiled and with a small hole in margin, cropped, affecting first lines of 5 pages of the dedicatory poems, fore-margins of woodcut music, and numerous headlines, signatures and catchwords, some pale dampstaining. Second edition, engraved title cartouche, 10 small text engravings of fish, 2 pages woodcut music (the second printed upside down). Horne 2; Oliver 2; Pforzheimer 1049.

Details
WALTON, IZAAK. The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. London: by T. M. for Rich. Marriot 1655. 12mo, 137 x 77mm. (5 3/8 x 3 1/16), nineteenth-century green morocco gilt, spine blind-tooled and gilt-lettered, g.e., spine faded, inner joints cracked, extremities very slightly rubbed, title soiled and with a small hole in margin, cropped, affecting first lines of 5 pages of the dedicatory poems, fore-margins of woodcut music, and numerous headlines, signatures and catchwords, some pale dampstaining. Second edition, engraved title cartouche, 10 small text engravings of fish, 2 pages woodcut music (the second printed upside down). Horne 2; Oliver 2; Pforzheimer 1049.

Provenance: Dean Sage, bookplate (sale, Parke-Bernet, 10 April 1942, lot 453).