[THE LEA AND DOVE DE LUXE EDITION]WALTON, IZAAK and COTTON, ...

Estimate

£500 - £700

[THE LEA AND DOVE DE LUXE EDITION]

WALTON, IZAAK and COTTON, CHARLES

THE COMPLEAT ANGLER OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION... AND INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO ANGLE FOR A TROUT OR GRAYLING IN A CLEAR STREAM

London, Sampson Low [and others], 1888. 100th edition, the De Luxe limited edition number 187 of 250 copies, signed by R. B. Marston (the editor), all illustrations in mounted India-proof state, photogravures by Peter Henry Emerson and George Bankhart, a very good copy. Handsomely bound in full green morocco leather, boards with the combined gilt monograms of Walton and Cotton, spines with gilt lettering direct (spines faded to brown), inner gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers, a handsome and scarce set (2)