THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

THE COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON 1931 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

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[WALTON, Izaak; RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator)]. The Compleat Angler, or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish, and Fishing, Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George C. Harrap, 1931.

First edition thus. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Quarto (25.5cm x 18.5cm x 3cm). Pp. 224. English text. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth covers with gilt titles and designs. Pictorial endpapers. Half-title. Title-page printed in green and black. 12 colour illustrations, plus b&w illustrations in the text, by Arthur Rackham. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. A slight crease and surface rubbing to rear board. The interior largely fresh and clean. Without previous ownership markings. A handsome copy.

Notes: The first edition thus of Izaak Walton's important seventeenth century guide to fishing. Here illustrated with colour plates by the Golden Age illustrator Arthur Rackham. The first edition thus of this work, being the first edition illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eleven colour plates, and twenty-five in-text line-drawings.