The Complete [Compleat] Angler. Edited by 'Ephemera' [Edward Fitzgibbon]. [Third Edition thus] THIRD EPHEMERA EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
by WALTON Izaak
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Routledge Warnes & Routledge,, 1859. 8vo., Third Edition thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette, 3 plates and illustrations in the text; pale green cloth, boards and backstrip elaborately blocked in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt, primrose endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a bright, clean, crisp copy. Includes Fitzgibbon's 'Advertisment' and the sketch of Walton's life. Coigney 75; Oliver 72; Westwood & Satchell p.233.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46188
- Title
- The Complete [Compleat] Angler. Edited by 'Ephemera' [Edward Fitzgibbon]. [Third Edition thus] THIRD EPHEMERA EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
- Author
- WALTON Izaak
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Routledge Warnes & Routledge,
- Date Published
- 1859
- Keywords
- sports, pastimes, angling, fishing, walton, izaak walton, cotton, charles cotton, compleat angler, complete angler, ephemra, edward fitzgibbon
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- Rebacked
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