WALTON, IZAAK AND CHARLES COTTON — The Complete Angler

London: Henry Washbourne 1842 or Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing. With Notes biographies and explanatiory and the Lives of the Authors 396 pages with 15 copper-engraved plates, including a potrait of Walton. 76 woodcut vignettes and head or tail pieces, index HARDCOVER: (Orig. half leather binding (some wear to spine ends) with very rich gold decoration on spine. Nice bookplate of Philip Beaumont Frere. VERY GOOD) RARE AND SOUGHT AFTER first edition of Walton's famous work.With nice bookplate of former owner Philip Beaumont Frere, a well-known book collector, who for a time he owned copy 45 of the Gutenberg Bible.