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Lot 61

WALTON (IZAAK)
The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing], FIRST EDITION, [Richard Marriott, 1653]

14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,750 inc. premium

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[WALTON (IZAAK)

The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing], FIRST EDITION, lacks title and 27 leaves (including one blank, all supplied in facsimile by Elliot, Stock & Co.), some headlines and a few margins shaved, occasional light dampstaining, calf by Maltby of Oxford, gilt morocco spine label, covers detached, purpose-made fleece-lined solander box [ESTC R202374; Coigney 1; Oliver 1; Pforzheimer 1048; Westwood & Satchell, p.217], 8vo (135 x 85mm.), [Richard Marriott, 1653]

Footnotes

FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST FAMOUS AND CELEBRATED WORK IN ANGLING LITERATURE. "A FIRST Walton confers distinction upon its owner... Copies rarely reach the auction room" (Westwood & Satchell).

Provenance: Paulin Martin (1842-1929), bookplate and his ownership inscription ("Jy. 1904, Abindgdon"), with note of purchase (Sotheby's sale 2 July, 1902) and note on the copy; Frederick McDonald Hall, sold as his property at Sotheby's 26 October 1959, lot 269 (catalogue included in the lot); Maggs Bros, loosely inserted correspondence concerning the supply of the box (November 1959); William Henry Collins, who in a letter to Maggs (11 March 1960) mentions "I am the present owner of all the water and the fishing house which previously belonged to Charles Cotton and was built by him in 1674"; thence by descent to the present owner.

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