Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 272

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
WALTON, IZAAK; and COTTON, CHARLES. The Compleat Angler. Edited by Sir John Hawkins. 16 etched plates (offsetting onto facing pages). lvi, xxii, 303, [1]; xlviii, iv, ii, iv, 128, [8] pages. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, contemporary sheep, cover edges worn, rebacked, endpapers renewed; scattered foxing variously affecting some plates, stain on title and next 2 leaves, leaf of manuscript provenance notes (including 1773 inscription "from Sir Joshua Reynolds," not in his hand) mounted on front pastedown. London: Thomas Hope for Sackville Parker et al., 1760

Additional Details

first hawkins edition, "the first to have abundant annotations"--Horne 9.