May 15, 2008 - Sale 2146

Sale 2146 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(EMERSON, PETER HENRY.) The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Vols. I and II. Together, 2 volumes. Text by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. Edited by R. B. Marston. Illustrated with 53 (of 54) photogravures after photographs by Emerson and George Bankart and approximately 100 woodcuts. 4to, 1/4 gilt-stamped green cloth, lightly soiled, dampstained and age-darkened; plates very good; bookplates. first demy quarto edition; one of 500 copies, signed and numbered by the editor. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Livingston, 1888