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WALTON, Izaak (1593-1683) and Charles COTTON (1630-1687). The Compleat Angler. Ed. by Richard LeGallienne. London and New York: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1904.
8o (183 x 122 mm). Illustrated by Edmund H. New. Green morocco, covers with onlaid design of water-lilies raising from a pond executed in gilt lines, in which two fish are swimming, with lower leaves in darker green morocco onlays, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, the remaining with simple rule borders, turn-ins gilt with fish motifs, by Riviere and Son, IN FINE CONDITION; cloth slipcase. Provenance: Cortland F. Bishop (bookplate); Frank S. Hatch (bookplate).
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