The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson
The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson

INVENTORY #157190

The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson

WALTON, Izaak; KEYNES, Geoffrey (ed.); POULTON, Thomas & SIGRIST, Charles (illus.)

$200.00 CAD Sale

Nonesuch Press specialised in limited edition and private press. A former owner of this volume, Philippe Garigue, was a political scientist and professor born in Manchester, England in 1913 and died in 2008 in Toronto. He was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Montreal and later Principal of Glendon College in Toronto.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: The Nonesuch Press
  • Edition: 1100 copies for sale in England by The Nonesuch Press and 500 copies for sale in the US by Random House. This is no. 1340.
  • Date Published: 1929
  • Place Published: Bloomsbury
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Good
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    x, 631 p. 22 cm. Frontispiece portraits of Walton, Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, Sanderson, each after Walton having tissue guard. In-text illustrations of fish in Compleat Angler, a couple shaded slightly pink. Leather with gold impressing. Marbled endpapers. Some stains to exterior. Slight offsetting on title. Chips to tops of pp. 126-127 and some other page edges. Bookplates on front endpapers.

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