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