159 - WALTON (Isaac).

WALTON (Isaac). The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. The First Part. Part I. Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. London, printed for R. Marriot, and sold by Charles Harper, 1676. Small 12mo (87 x 142 mm), brown sheepskin, double fillet and blind-stamped lace decorating the covers, fleurons at the corners and in the center, decorated ribbed spine (19th-century pastiche binding). Part One only (of three). [XXIV] + 275 + [I (blank)] + [X] pp. “The Fifth Edition, much corrected and enlarged.” A title vignette and ten small engravings of fish in the text; two pages of sheet music for “The Anglers’ Song.” Our copy features a title page that has been reassembled and reinforced by lamination, consisting of two parts: the upper part containing the title vignette and the lower part taken from the “half-title” bearing the address “London, Printed for R. Marriot, and are to be sold by Charles Harper,” as described by Westwood. Spine re-bound; copy with narrow margins (with text loss on pp. 223/224); some foxing and minor water stains, particularly on the title page. FIFTH EDITION & LAST PUBLISHED DURING THE AUTHOR’S LIFETIME. “[…] the fifth [edition], which sometimes bears the title of ‘The Universal Angler,’ when consisting of Walton, Cotton, and Venables in conjunction.” (Westwood & Satchell, 278).