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WALTON, Izaak (1593-1683). The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Edited by Harris Nichols. London: Charles Whittingham for William Pickering, 1836.
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WALTON, Izaak (1593-1683). The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Edited by Harris Nichols. London: Charles Whittingham for William Pickering, 1836.
A remarkable grangerized copy of the greatest fishing book of all time, in a Zaehnsdorf binding made for outdoorsman Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox. R. B. Marston, editor of The Fishing Gazette, described this edition as “the finest and most valuable,” writing that “if you want Walton with editorial annotation developed to its utmost limits, with scenic and other illustrations to match, you must have this third edition of Pickering.” The present copy is further developed by a panoply of added illustrations, including leaves from 16th-century books such as Belon’s De Aquatilibus. The set was bound for Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox, a barrister and outdoorsman who edited The Angler’s Diary as I.E.B.C. Coigney notes that this edition is “a favorite of the extra-illustrator.” Coigney 44.
Five volumes, octavo (276 x 189mm). 61 plates; extra-illustrated with 680 grangerized illustrations including 21 original drawings. 19th-century green calf gilt by Joseph Zaehnsdorf. Provenance: Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox (1838-1922, British barrister and angling enthusiast; binding).
A remarkable grangerized copy of the greatest fishing book of all time, in a Zaehnsdorf binding made for outdoorsman Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox. R. B. Marston, editor of The Fishing Gazette, described this edition as “the finest and most valuable,” writing that “if you want Walton with editorial annotation developed to its utmost limits, with scenic and other illustrations to match, you must have this third edition of Pickering.” The present copy is further developed by a panoply of added illustrations, including leaves from 16th-century books such as Belon’s De Aquatilibus. The set was bound for Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox, a barrister and outdoorsman who edited The Angler’s Diary as I.E.B.C. Coigney notes that this edition is “a favorite of the extra-illustrator.” Coigney 44.
Five volumes, octavo (276 x 189mm). 61 plates; extra-illustrated with 680 grangerized illustrations including 21 original drawings. 19th-century green calf gilt by Joseph Zaehnsdorf. Provenance: Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox (1838-1922, British barrister and angling enthusiast; binding).