The Compleet Anger, or The Contemplative Man's Recreation [together with] The Practical Fly-Fisher more particularly for Grayling or Umber

By: Walton, Izaak & Cotton, Charles (edited by John Major) & Jackson, John

Price: £195.00

Publisher: John C Nimmo: 1889

Seller ID: 220476

Condition: Very Good

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hardback, octavo, attractively bound by Bayntun in half green morocco that has faded a little to spine, green cloth sides, boards ruled gilt, raised bands to spine with ruled compartments containing sporting motif, fishes, creel, fly, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. The main body of the work comprises Walton and Cotton's Complete Angler with a tissue guarded frontis, six original etchings, five portraits, seventy-four wood engravings, appended to the rear is Jackson's Practical Fly-Fisher with ten hand-coloured plates, tissue guarded. A very good tightly bound, clean, unmarked and attractiv... View more info