This book, "The complete angler", by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, is a replication of a book originally published before 1859. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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This book, "The complete angler", by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, is a replication of a book originally published before 1859. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. With slight and inoffensive markings, In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. Pink clothbound octavo hardback. Decorative red speckling on page edges. Foxing present throughout. Pages otherwise clean, with clear and legible text. Images are crisp and unfaded. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN:
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Very Good. Parts one and two bound in one volume. Part one published by William Pickering (1827), part two by Thomas White (1826). Part one is from an 1827 Pickering edition that lacks a title page (publisher and year of present copy determined from the frontispiece). Decorative titles from an 1825 Pickering edition have been pasted at blank page opposite frontis, and an illustration plate has been pasted preceding part one, with attendant toning to first page of part one. Brown leather with gilt titles and decoration at spine, gilt ruling at spine and panels, gilt decoration at edges. Leather lightly scuffed and scratched, light edgewear. Gilt sharp and bright. Spine square. Binding sound. The copy of James Edward Moxon, with bookplate at FFEP, and his name (dated 1939 and 1940) inked twice in the top margin of Walton's short biographical notice. Light foxing throughout, more moderate through front matter and last few pages of index. The text itself is otherwise clean and unmarked, but Wordsworth's 'Written Upon a Blank Leaf in The Complete Angler' is inked neatly at fly leaf, and the following is inked to verso of the makeshift title page, paraphrased from the third paragraph of Walton's message to the reader: 'In writing this I have made myself a recreation of a recreation: and that it might prove so, and not read dull + tediously, I have in some pla-ces mixed, not any scurrility, but some innocent, harmless mirth. ' 2.5in x 4in. Photographs available upon request.
