Izaak Walton; Charles Cotton; Richard Le Gallienne — The Compleat Angler

London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1897. Cloth. A decorative copy of The Compleat Angler, richly illustrated throughout. A later printing of the fifth edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fifty-two full page illustrations, and numerous images within the text. Collated, compete. A celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse, first published in 1653 with Walton continuing to add to it for a quarter of a century. Written by Izaak Walton, an English writer and Charles Cotton, an English poet and writer. Edited by Richard Le Gallienne, an English author and poet. Illustrated by Edmund Hort New, an English artist, member of the Birmingham Group, and leading illustrator of his day. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Further spotting and light age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: Edmund H. New. Very Good .