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The Celebrated Pickering Edition of Walton's Angling Classic. The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse on Rivers Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing and Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream. With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas.

Walton, Isaak.

  • Publisher: London: William Pickering, 1836.
  • Published: 1836
London: William Pickering, 1836., 1836. Hard Cover. The first Pickering edition. Two Volumes. Imperial octavo (large paper copy). aeg. Handsomely printed on vellum paper by Whittingham. Portrait frontispieces to both vols and 61 plates from designs by Stothard and Inskipp, 29 engravings within the text and 10 engraved headpieces. Bound in nineteenth century green morocco by Riviere. Bookplate of Francis Sharratt to each volume. Bindings lightly rubbed, spines slightly more so, usual offsetting from the plates. Coigney 44; Horne 43.

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Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5. Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA

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