SPORTS and GAMES
ALLCOCKS: Allcocks
Anglers' Guide.
150th Anniversary Edition 1803-1953
Coronation Year.
Redditch: Allcocks,
1953 Black & white illustrations.
Tall 8vo, pp.112, original paper covers stapled at edges
and covered with cloth tape;
a number of small chips and creasing to edges of covers
and a small hole with surface damage to upper cover;
blurred blue ink stamped company name and address to
bottom of upper cover;
page edges slightly browned;
internally good.
Quote Item No. 8972
Price: £30.00
ANON: Chess: A Manual for Beginners by the Author
of "the Chess Openings" [With an Appendix by H. E. Bird].
London: Dean & Son, n.d. ca. 1895.
Small 8vo, pp.18:63, original brown cloth blocked in blind and
black; binding a trifle dusty otherwise very good.
Quote Item No. 5225
Price: £15.00
ANON: How to Catch Trout, by Three Anglers.
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1902.
Eighth edition. Illustrations. Small 8vo,
pp.vi:83:(5, adverts.) original cloth-backed pictorial boards; e
dges of boards rubbed, slightly soiled. Stitching slack.
Quote Item No. 2404
Price: £45.00
BEAUFORT, DUKE OF; MORRIS,
MOWBRAY: Hunting. With Illustrations by J. Sturgess, J. Charlton,
G.D. Giles, and A.C. Sealy. New Impression. In the
"Badminton Library" series.
London: Longmans, Green, 1901.
8vo, pp.xii:387, original brown pictorial cloth; foxing to
edge of text block, headband bumped but generally a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 9824
Price: £30.00
BOWLKER, CHARLES: The Art of Angling; or, Compleat
Fly-Fisher. Describing the Different Kinds of Fish ....Various
Kinds of Baits .... Flies that Nature Produces ... Directions for
making Artificial Flies ... Improvements in the Art of Angling.
Birmingham: M. Swinney, 1788.
Engraved frontispiece. 8vo, pp.xi:118:(1, leaf of publisher's
advertisements), contemporary full calf; joints cracked, both boards
held on one cord only, frontispiece partly detached, calf partly
stripped from boards.
Engraved illustrated advertisement, on front pastedown, for John
Higginbotham, Fishing Rod Maker, at the Golden Fish, No. 91,
opposite Southampton-Street, Strand, from whom one assumes this
volume was purchased new as his advertisement states that he sold
"Treatises on Angling".
Ink inscription, also on pastedown "Museum Rusticum Spottiswoode".
Apart from the poor state of the binding this is actually a very
nice copy internally.
Quote Item No. 4269
Price: £225.00
CADOGAN, LADY ADELAIDE: Illustrated Games of Patience.
Sixth Edition.
London: Sampson Low, 1887.
Coloured plates. 4to, pp.48, original green cloth blocked with
coloured playing cards. Small abrasion to fore-edge of upper
cover else very good. Contemporary inscription on half-title.
Quote Item No. 3812
Price: £25.00
CATALOGUE: Fishing Tackle.
London: for Ogden Smiths Limited, n.d.
Illustrated in colour and black & white. 8vo, pp.140, original
cloth-backed boards; binding extremely rubbed, else internally
a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 5798
Price: £30.00
CHESTERFIELD,
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, 4th EARL OF: Lettres du Comte de
Chesterfield a son fils Philippe Stanhope. Nouvelle edition.
Rotterdam: Henri Beman, 1779.
Four volumes. 8vo, contemporary full mottled tan calf, spines gilt;
one joint cracked and chipped, four leaves detached but present,
some chipping to headbands and base of spines.
Quote Item No. 2588
Price: £30.00
CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL, H: Fishing - Salmon and Trout.
London: Longmans, 1893.
Sixth edition, revised. Plates and illustrations. 8vo,
pp.481, publisher's half calf gilt; some chipping to head and base
of spine else very sound.
In the "Badminton Library" series.
Quote Item No. 3542
Price: £18.00
CLARK, CUMBERLAND: The Humours of Bridge. Illustrations
by John Hassall.
London: Printed by Wass, Pritchard & Co. [1926].
First edition. Coloured plates by John Hassall. 8vo,
pp.133, original blue cloth lettered in gilt; rubbing to
corners, headbands a little rubbed,
else an excellent bright copy.
Quote Item No. 10200
Price: £55.00
DARWIN, BERNARD, COTTON, HENRY and Others: A History of
Golf in Britain. With a foreword by Sir George Cunningham.
London: Cassell, 1952.
First edition. Coloured portrait frontispiece, and numerous
b&w plates. Large 4to, pp.xv:312, original green glazed cloth
with tan lettering piece; ink inscription on f.f.e. An
excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 4151
Price: £75.00
DARWIN,
BERNARD: A Friendly Round.
London: Mills & Boon, 1922.
First edition. 8vo, pp.142:(1, advertisement):16 (Mills &
Boon's catalogue), original green cloth. Headband bumped and
with very short split at hinge, about an eighth of an inch.
Spine somewhat askew but generally a very good copy with only a
little light foxing. Rare.
Quote Item No. 8503
Price: £425.00
DAWSON, MAJOR KENNETH: From Major to Minor. Some Keys
for Anglers. Annotated by the Wag.
London: Country Life Ltd, 1928.
First edition. Numerous b&w illustrations throughout.
Large 8vo, pp.[viii]:294, original green and brown cloth pictorially
blocked in black, binding snagged on fore-edge, very
slight mottling to lower edge, some foxing.
Quote Item No. 1865
Price: £15.00
EVERED, PHILIP: Staghunting with the "Devon and Somerset"
1887-1901. An Account of the Chase of the Wild Red Deer on
Exmoor. Illustrated by H.M. Lomas.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1902.
First edition. Plates. Small 4to, pp.xv:378, original
red cloth gilt. Binding stained, splits to upper joint; a
little light foxing but internally generally very good. An
ideal candidate for rebinding and priced accordingly.
Quote Item No. 8232
Price: £30.00
FARRAR, GUY B: The Royal Liverpool Golf Club. A History
1869 - 1932. With a Foreword by Bernard Darwin.
Birkenhead: Willmer Brothers, 1933.
First edition. Frontispiece, plates, and plans. Tall 8vo, pp. 310,
original green cloth, arms of the club in gilt on upper cover. Two
small white marks on upper cover, lower cover partly affected by
damp but generally a good copy.
Quote Item No. 6685
Price: £450.00
FLEMING, ARNOLD: Falconry and Falcons. The Sport of
Flight. Illustrated with 48 photographs of Hawks taken by
distinguished bird photographers.
London: Country Life, 1934.
No. 321 of a limited edition of 350. Plates. 4to,
pp.114:(1), original green cloth. Plate at page 2 detached and
with half-inch trimmed from blank margin and one blank corner
creased, else good.
Quote Item No. 3737
Price: £85.00
FINCH, GEORGE INGLE: The Making of a Mountaineer.
London: Arrowsmith, 1924.
First edition. Photographic frontispiece, b&w plates.
Tall 8vo, pp.340, original dark blue grained cloth pictorially
blocked in gilt on upper cover; some edge foxing, ink
inscription on f.f.e. Unfortunately five loose plates have
been re-attached using sellotape causing the usual discolouration
along edge.
Quote Item No. 4152
Price: £25.00
GRAHAM-HOGG, DENIS: Know Your Woodpigeon Shooting.
Clwyd: W.A.G.B.I., 1977.
Illustrated in black & white. 8vo, pp.32, original paper
wrappers.
Quote Item No. 6004
Price: £10.00
HEMANS, H.N: The Log of a Native Commissioner. A
Record of Work and Sport in Southern Rhodesia.
London: Witherby, 1935.
First edition. Black & white photographic plates, folding map.
8vo, pp.224, original red cloth lettered in gilt; binding
generally rubbed and slightly soiled with some marks; foxed
throughout; ink ownership name on f.f.e.
Quote Item No. 6901
Price: £45.00
HEWETT, H.P: The Fairest
Hunting. Hunting and Watching Exmore Deer.
London: J. A. Allen, 1963.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.116:(1), original cloth;
very good in edge worn and very slightly torn dustwrapper.
Foxing to edges of text block and slightly within. Signed by the
author on title.
With 8 autograph letters from the author loosely inserted (19 sides)
1958-1969, to Denis Aldridge. With Denis Aldridge's engraved
bookplate on front pastedown and with a coloured photograph of two
gentlemen, presumably Hewett & Alrdridge, mounted to preface page
(not obscuring text).
Quote Item No. 9266
Price: £75.00
HIGHTON, HUGH P: Shooting Trips in Europe and Algeria.
Being a Record of Sport in the Alps, Pyrenees, Norway, Sweden,
Corsica, and Algeria.
London: Witherby, 1921.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.237, original green
cloth, spine pictorially blocked in black. Frontispiece
detached and a little damp-marked on upper margin. Fore-margin
of two leaves partly ragged where badly opened. Contemporary
signature on front pastedown, modern signature on front free
endpaper. The binding good.
Quote Item No. 8230
Price: £30.00
HODGSON, W.J: Skating Scenes - Humorous.
Hildesheimer & Faulkner, n.d.
Four coloured plates opening out in one continuous strip. Oblong 12
mo, original pictorial wrappers. 1 inch split on one fold, lower
cover creased. Printed "With Best Wishes" on lower cover so
obviously published as a greetings card/gift. Rare.
Quote Item No. 8913
Price: £30.00
HOYLE, EDMUND: The New Pocket Hoyle, containing the Games of
Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Quinze, Lansquenet, Pharo, Rouge et Noir,
Cribbage, Matrimony, Cassino, Reversis, Put, Connexions, and
Speculation. Third Edition.
London: T. Davison for Robert Scholey ( & others) 1807.
Additional engraved title. 12mo, pp.202:(8, publisher's
advertisements), contemporary burgundy sheep; a little rubbed
but generally good.
Quote Item No. 9576
Price: £60.00
HUTCHINSON, HORACE G: Golf.
London: Longmans, Green, The Badminton Library, 1890.
First edition. Plates & illustrations. 8vo, pp.xiv:463,
original decorated cloth. Base of spine lightly faded, upper
inner hinge tender, prelims partly detached. Contemporary
inscription on front free endpaper. These faults apart generally a
very good copy.
Quote Item No. 4159
Price: £125.00
IRVING, R.L.G: A History of British Mountaineering.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1955.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.xv:240, original cloth;
fine in dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 47
Price: £25.00
JONES, M. WHITMORE: New Games of Patience. Forty-five
of the Newest and Best Games Clearly Described and Illustrated.
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1911.
8vo, pp.168, original green cloth; rubbed, corners bumped,
small paint mark on lower cover, some foxing.
Quote Item No. 5410
Price: £10.00
JORGENSEN, POUL: Modern Fly Dressings for the Practical
Angler.
New York: Winchester Press, 1977.
Third edition. Illustrated in black & white. 4to,
pp.xv:224, original cloth in glazed dustwrapper; dustwrapper
torn in several places with some loss, else a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 5802
Price: £20.00
KIRBY, FREDERICK VAUGHAN:
In Haunts of Wild Game. A Hunter-Naturalist's Wanderings from
Kahlamba to Libombo. With a Portrait of the Author, Numerous
Illustrations by C. Whymper and a Map.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1896.
First edition. Folding coloured map. Large square 8vo, pp.xvi:576,
original tan pictorial cloth; headbands chipped, cloth to
upper outer joint split and backstrip detached at this joint.
A very good copy internally and would re-case quite well as the
boards and backstrip are generally good. Armorial bookplate.
Quote Item No. 9005
Price: £280.00
LEACH,
HENRY: The Spirit of the Links.
London: Methuen, 1907.
First edition. 8vo, pp.(4):314:40 (Methuen's catalogue dated
July 1907), original green cloth ruled in gilt. Prelims. and
edges of text block foxed, the binding a trifle rubbed, very minor
indent on spine, lower board a little warped but generally a very
good copy. Rare.
Quote Item No. 8504
Price: £330.00
LLOYD, J. IVESTER: Some Notes on the Chase.
London: Illustrations by T. Ivester Lloyd.
Oblong 8vo, pp.(16) original coloured pictorial stiff wrappers; with
Moss Bros. price list of hunting outfits at end. A very good
bright copy.
Quote Item No. 7879
Price: £25.00
MACPHERSON, H.A; STUART-WORTLEY, A.J; and SAINTSBURY,
GEORGE: The Partridge: Natural History - Shooting -
Cookery. Part of the "Fur and Feather" series.
London: Longmans, 1894.
Second edition. Plates and illustrations. 8vo, pp.vi:(1):276,
original tan cloth pictorially blocked in brown and lettered in red.
Headband rubbed else a very good copy. Contemporary
inscription on endpaper.
Quote Item No. 3680
Price: £15.00
McCLELLAND, H.
G: The Trout Fly Dresser's Cabinet of Devices or How to Tie
Flies for Trout and Grayling Fishing.
London: Sampson Low, 1899.
First edition. Portrait and illustrations. 12mo, pp.137:(3,
adverts.) original cloth backed boards; binding marked and
soiled, small piece cut from front free endpaper; internally
sound.
Quote Item No. 2406
Price: £35.00
McCLELLAND, H.G: The Trout Fly Dresser's Cabinet of Devices
or How to Tie Flies for Trout and Grayling Fishing. With
Eighty Illustrations.
London: Offices of the "Fishing Gazette", 1931.
Seventh edition. Portrait frontispiece. Small 8vo,
pp.viii:137:[3, advertisements], original cloth lettered in gilt;
a good copy.
Quote Item No. 5793
Price: £12.00
MIDLAND GUN COMPANY: Guns, Rifles, Revolvers, Implements.
Price List. 4th edition.
Birmingham: Midland Gun Co., n.d. ca. 1910.
Trade catalogue. Well illustrated throughout including 6
full-page coloured plates of individual guns. 4to, pp.116
original red wrappers; wrappers chipped, internally very good.
Quote Item No. 10164
Price: £110.00
PICKERING, TOM: The Complete Book of Coarse Fishing.
London: Collins Willow, 1992.
Illustrated profusely in colour. 4to, pp.220:[4, index],
original cloth in dustwrapper; unfortunately the binding has
been encased in plastic with some sellotape adhering to pastedowns,
else a good copy.
Quote Item No. 5812
Price: £10.00
McLEAN, COLIN: At Dawn and Dusk. Being my record of
nearly sixty years of wildfowling.
London: Batchworth Press, 1954.
First edition. Plates. Large 8vo, pp.xiv:194, original
cloth. Foxing, especially to prelims. Bookplate.
The binding very good in chipped and worn d.w.
Quote Item No. 3829
Price: £34.00
McNEILL, C. F. P: The Unwritten Laws of the Hunting Field
with ....... Notes on the Use of the Horn and the Whistle and a List
of Five Thousand Names of Hounds.
London: Vinton & Co, 1911.
Second edition. Small 8vo, pp.48, original crimson cloth
pictorially blocked in gilt; backstrip dulled else a very good
copy indeed. Contemporary signature on endpaper.
Quote Item No. 3566
Price: £25.00
MARSTON, E. "The Amateur Angler": Easy-Chair Memories and
Rambling Notes.
London: Sampson Low, 1911.
Number 24 of only 100 copies signed by the author. Plates.
8vo, pp.x:(1):174:(2, adverts.) original 2-tone cloth, top edge
gilt. Some foxing, binding very soiled. An ideal
candidate for re-binding. Inscribed by the author on front
free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 4434
Price: £60.00
MEYSEY-THOMPSON, COLONEL R.F: A Fishing Catechism.
London: Edward Arnold, 1905.
First edition. Small
8vo, pp.viii:227:(7, fishing tackle advertisements), original light
olive green cloth pictorially blocked in white, spine mottled,
contemporary signature on front pastedown, prelims foxed, generally
good.
Quote Item No. 9815
Price: £25.00
MIRAMS, RICHARD V: Moseley Milestones. A History of
The Moseley Golf Club, 1892-1992.
for the Moseley Golf Club, 1993.
Illustrations. Large 8vo, pp.v:141, original cloth gilt;
very good in slightly rubbed d.w.
Quote Item No. 2307
Price: £18.00
MORRISON, J.S.F. [Editor]: Around Golf. With
contributions by Bernard Darwin, ... Henry Longhurst ....
London: Arthur Barker, 1939.
First edition. Photographic plates. Tall 8vo, pp.246, original
green cloth blocked in gilt; binding a little marked, some foxing
but generally good. Contemporary inscription on front free
endpaper.
Quote Item No. 8507
Price: £65.00
POPE, SAXTON: Hunting with Bow and Arrow.
New York: G. P. Putnam, 1925.
First edition. 48 largely photographic illustrations on 19
plates. 8vo, pp.xi:257:(2,adverts.) original green cloth;
lettering to spine dulled else a very good copy.
Hunting the Raccoon, Wildcat, Fox, Coon, Cat, Wolf, Deer, Bear,
Mountain Lion, & Grizzly Bear.
Quote Item No. 6047
Price: £200.00
ROBINSON, RAY: After Stumps Were Drawn. The Best of
Ray Robinson's Cricket Writing. Foreward by Sir Donald Bradman.
Sydney: William Collins, 1985.
First edition. Black & white photographic plates. 8vo,
pp.237, original green cloth in dustwrapper; dustwrapper and
page edges slightly browned; very faint brown marks to
spine edge; in all other respects, excellent.
Quote Item No. 7393
Price: £20.00
ROBERTS, CHARLES: The Complete Billiard Player by Charles
Roberts ("Vivid").
London: Methuen, 1911.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.x:284:31(publisher's
catalogue), original green cloth ruled and lettered in gilt.
Presentation Copy, ink stamped to that effect on title. Some foxing
but generally a very good and bright copy.
Quote Item No. 4157
Price: £175.00
RUSSELL, C.E.M: Bullet and Shot in Indian Forest, Plain and
Hill. With Hints to Beginners in Indian Shooting.
London: Thacker, 1900.
First edition. Frontispiece. Large 8vo, pp.xii:542,
original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt. The binding
very poor, rubbed, stained, and marked, endpapers discoloured.
Inscriptions on front free endpaper. Internally good; an
ideal candidate for rebinding and priced accordingly
Quote Item No. 8229
Price: £25.00
SARGENT, HARRY R: Thoughts Upon Sport. A work dealing
shortly with each branch of sport, and showing that as a medium for
the circulation of money Sport stands unrivalled among the
Institutions of the Kingdom. To which are added Memoirs of the
Curraghmore Hunt, ....
London: Photo-Prismatic Publishing Company, 1894.
First edition. Plate and plans. 8vo, pp.xvi:426, finely
bound half crimson morocco, spine gilt on bands and in compartments,
a.e.g. by Zaehnsdorf. Signature on front fly, marbled boards a
little faded. The binding and contents generally excellent.
* With chapters on Hunting, Shooting, Fishing, Coursing,
"Manly Games and Exercise", the Prize-ring and the cock-pit,
Betting, "Hygenic Principles" (e.g. cold baths), Racing etc. etc.
Quote Item No. 3362
Price: £150.00
SKUES, G.E.M: Itchen Memories. With Illustrations by
Alex Jardine.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1951.
First edition. 8vo, pp.128, original green cloth;
binding unattractively unevenly faded. In remains of price
clipped d.w.
Quote Item No. 5718
Price: £25.00
SKUES, G.E.M: The Way of a Trout with a Fly.
Containing Three Full-Page Plates Two of Them in Colour.
London: A. & C. Black, 1935.
Third edition. Three plates. 8vo, pp.xviii:260, original
brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine; headbands and corners
bumped and rubbed; binding rubbed along spine; inner
joints cracked at p.xv; generally good.
Quote Item No. 6795
Price: £30.00
STAUNTON, HOWARD: The Chess-Players Handbook. A Popular and
Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess. With an Alphabetical
List of the principal openings, and a Bibliography by R.F. Green.
London: George Bell, 1897.
8vo, pp.viii:544:32 (Bohn's Library catalogue) original cloth
blocked in gilt with a chess board on upper cover; spine very
slightly sunned but generally a very good bright copy.
Quote Item No. 6063
Price: £25.00
SURTEES, JOHN: Speed, John Surtees' Own Story.
London: Arthur Barker, 1963.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.168, original cloth;
an excellent copy in very good d.w.
Quote Item No. 4390
Price: £24.00
SURTEES, R.S: The Analysis of the Hunting Field. With
13 coloured plates and 43 illustrations in the text by H. Alken.
LIMITED EDITION.
One of a limited edition of 500 copies. 13 hand-coloured
plates including illustrated additional title-page. Tall 8vo,
pp.xv:306, original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt, top
edge gilt. A trifle very light spotting to upper cover, some
light foxing to prelims. but generally a very good copy indeed.
Quote Item No.3563
Price: £125.00
SYMONDS, HENRY: Runs and Sporting Notes from
Dorsetshire. By the late Henry Symonds, of Gorwell and
Millbourne St. Andrew.
Blandford, Dorset: Edward Derham, 1899.
Portraits. 8vo, pp.110, original cloth gilt. The text
wire-stitched as issued. Wire staples rusted and as a result
text detached from binding; several leaves detached. Binding a
little spotted.
Quote Item No. 211
Price: £45.00
TAVERNER, ERIC: Trout Fishing from All Angles. With
two hundred and fifty illustrations. Part of "The Lonsdale
Library" Volume II.
London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1944. Black & white
photographic plates and illustrations. 4to, pp.448, original
cloth-backed boards; binding generally tired and bumped;
ink inscription on f.f.e.
Quote Item No. 5807
Price: £10.00
TAYLER, JAMES: Red Palmer: A Practical Treatise on
Fly-Fishing.
Folkestone: by T. Kentfield, 1893.
Third edition. 8vo, pp.88:(3, index):(10, partly illustrated
advertisements), original cloth; binding poor - faded and
affected by damp, inner joints split, spine cockled - internally
good. Inscribed in ink on lower blank margin of title "Price
1/6, post price 1/8"
Quote Item No. 2414
Price: £35.00
TOLLEMACHE, LORD: Croquet. [Complete with all
contents of endpocket as called for.]
London: Stanley Paul, 1914.
First edition. Plates and diagrams. With rear end-pocket
containing: Diagram I and Diagram II (to illustrate page 39);
and a further six Diagrams I - VI. (all ca. 9 x 8 inches); one
large gridded sheet portraying the court ca. 29 x 35 inches; &
an envelope containing coloured counters, three each red, blue,
yellow and black. 8vo, pp.x:195, original green ribbed cloth
blocked in gilt.
An exceptional copy and very rare with the two diagrams in
end-pocket illustrating page 39; these usually lacking.
Quote Item No. 4158
Price: £400.00
TRYCKARE, TRE and CAGNER, E: Fishing. The Complete
Book.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1977.
Illustrated in colour and black & white. Large 4to, pp.419,
original cloth in dustwrapper; unfortunately the dustwrapper
has been encased in plastic sellotaped to the edges; some
browning to the edges of the dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 5813
Price: £12.00
TULLOCH,
W.W: The Life of Tom Morris. With Glimpses of St.
Andrews and its Golfing Celebrities.
London: T. Werner Laurie [1908].
First edition. Frontispiece and 26 photographic illustrations
on 24 plates. Large 8vo, pp.xvi:334:(1, advertisement),
original pictorial green cloth blocked in colours. Some
rubbing to upper cover and extremities, tiny puncture to upper
joint, 1-inch closeable tear into headband without loss, and could
therefore be restored, some foxing as usual. Apart from the
headband tear generally a good copy. Rare.
Quote Item No. 8505
Price: £800.00
WALLACE, HAROLD FRANK: Stalks Abroad, being some account of
the sport obtained during a Two Years Tour of the World. With
a Frontispiece, Nine full-page and Eighteen half-page Illustrations
from Drawings by the Author and fifty-six Photographs.
London: Longmans, 1908.
First edition. Large 8vo, pp.xi:269, original green cloth
blocked in gilt. Some rippling to cloth on spine, headband
bumped, inner hinges slightly strained but generally a good copy.
Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper and with later
inscription below.
Quote Item No. 8223
Price: £55.00
WALTON, IZAAK: The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative
Man's Recreation. With Illustrations by James Thorpe.
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
Hodder & Stoughton, n.d.[1911].
No. 53 of a limited edition of only 250 copies signed by the
illustrator. 25 tipped-in coloured plates with illustrated and
captioned tissue-guards. 4to, pp.xvi:167, publisher's full
dark green morocco, the upper cover blocked in gilt with the
figure of an angler, top edge gilt others uncut. Spine
uniformly faded to tan but not unattractively and the whole still
polished; generally a very good copy.
Armorial bookplate.
Quote Item No.3560
Price: £350.00
WALTON, IZAAK & COTTON, CHARLES: The Complete Angler or
Contemplative Man's Recreation .... with Original Memoirs ... by Sir
Harris Nicolas and Sixty Illustrations ... by Stothard and Inskipp.
A New Edition.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1887.
8vo, pp.205:320:32 [publisher's catalogue], original brown cloth
gilt; upper inner joint slightly tender but generally a very good
copy.
Contemporary inscription on front fly.
Quote Item No. 3570
Price: £60.00
