Item #40988 THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; OR, THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION; BEING A DISCOURSE ON RIVERS, FISH-PONDS, FISH, AND FISHING... Edited by John Hawkins.; Edited by John Hawkins. Isaac Walton, Charles Cotton.
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; OR, THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION; BEING A DISCOURSE ON RIVERS, FISH-PONDS, FISH, AND FISHING... Edited by John Hawkins.; Edited by John Hawkins.
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; OR, THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION; BEING A DISCOURSE ON RIVERS, FISH-PONDS, FISH, AND FISHING... Edited by John Hawkins.; Edited by John Hawkins.
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; OR, THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION; BEING A DISCOURSE ON RIVERS, FISH-PONDS, FISH, AND FISHING... Edited by John Hawkins.; Edited by John Hawkins.

THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; OR, THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION; BEING A DISCOURSE ON RIVERS, FISH-PONDS, FISH, AND FISHING... Edited by John Hawkins.; Edited by John Hawkins.

London: Printed for James Smith, 1822. 8vo. lx, 383, (1) pp.; ad on verso of final leaf (without the other two leaves of ads). 15 plates. 19th-century green half-leather (front joint splitting from head of spine) and marbled boards (rubbed), leather spine labels (chipped). Some foxing to the plates, but a solid copy of an attractively illustrated edition. Item #40988

Smith edition. Coigney 22: "Often called the Gosden edition, as it was thought that it was published at the expense of Gosden, the sporting bookbinder; probably because most of the illustrations were published [by him]."

Price: $500.00

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