The Life of Isaac Walton; Including Notices of His Contemporaries.
London: Septimus Prowett, 1823. Second edition (first published in 1790). Small 8vo in fours. (4), ii, 93 pp. Illustrated with 20 engraved plates, including portraits of Walton and Cotton, title-page and final leaf vignettes, one in-text illustration. Westwood & Satchell, p. 245: "The illustrations are those used in Gosden's edition of the 'Compleat Angler,' 1822." Heckscher 2201. Cf. Coigney, pp. 405-406. Fine copy. Later scarlet straight-grain morocco, gilt, boards framed with a wide ornamental scroll between gilt rules, spine richly gilt with ornaments, rules, and title between raised bands, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, by Riviere. (8830). Item #61933
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