THE COMPLEAT ANGLER: OR, THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION. BEING A DISCOURSE OF RIVERS, FISH-PONDS, FISH AND FISHING. By Izaak Walton, and INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO ANGLE FOR TROUT OR GRAYLING IN A CLEAR STREAM by Charles Cotton... The Lea and Dove Edition.

(1653) 1888 The Lea and Dove (1st Marston) Edition in two volumes - Demy Quarto issue limited to 500 copies. Folio (220 x 298mm). Pp(122)+118+iv+119-359. Frontispiece portraits of Walton and Cotton, 52 photogravure plates by P.H. Emerson and George Bankhart, text woodcuts, maps, title-pages in black and red. Half morocco over green cloth boards, spine titled in gilt, gilt Walton and Cotton cypher to upper board, raised bands, top edge gilt, others untrimmed.

Coigney 139. The Lea and Dove Edition, being the 100th Edition of THE COMPLEAT ANGLER: OR, THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION. BEING A DISCOURSE OF RIVERS, FISH-PONDS, FISH AND FISHING written by Izaak Walton, and INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO ANGLE FOR TROUT OR GRAYLING IN A CLEAR STREAM by Charles Cotton. Edited and arranged by R.B. Marston. With fifty-four photogravures and about 100 woodcuts. And containing a reprint of THE CHRONICLE OF THE COMPLEAT ANGLER: A biographical record of its various editions and imitations, by T. Westwood and T. Satchell. In two volumes.