The Compleat Angler The Lea and Dove edition, being the 100th edition of The compleat angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing

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Limited Demy Quarto Edition to commemorate the 100th edition of The Compleat Angler! Two volumes in half green morocco over green cloth, some gilt tooling, gilt titles to upper boards, corners & edges worn. Spines, rubbed, raised bands, gilt titles. Internally Vol 1, half title, portrait frontis, [7], (viii-xcvii), [3], [3], (d-t), [1], [1], 2-118. Portrait frontis, [2], 119-357 pp. 54 pls, 87 illustrations plus 3 maps, errata leaf tipped to half title V1, each pl with printed guard, t.e.c, remainder uncut. Wood engravings by Mr. F. Carless & engraved by Mr. F. Alphonse Stankowski; photogravures by P.H. Emerson & George Bankart. (views on the Lea and Dove-those on the Lea by Mr. P. H. Emerson, B.A., & those on the Dove by Mr. George Bankart). VG (286*225 mm). The present edition reprints the text of the 1676 edition. Edition statement from verso of half-title (v. 1); full statement reads: This Demy Quarto Edition is limited strictly to 500 copies, of which this copy is No. 290 - signed by the editor RB Marston