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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: The Complete Angler; or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Title-page spread
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Izaak Walton

The Complete Angler; or the Contemplative Man's Recreation., 1825
4 x 2 3/8 in.
10 x 6 cm.
London: William Pickering
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$ 300.00
Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler; or the Contemplative Man's Recreation., 1825
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314pp.,(4)ff. index. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title page, and with several small cuts of fish throughout the text. The music for The Angler's Song is on page 185....
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314pp.,(4)ff. index. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title page, and with several small cuts of fish throughout the text. The music for The Angler's Song is on page 185. A large paper copy , bound in the original brown cloth with paper spine label. Minor wear to spine label, else a fine, unopened copy of one of the most desirable of the Pickering miniatures. With the booklabel of noted miniature collector Arthur Houghton on lower rear pastedown. (Spielmann 506). (3 15/16 by 2 3/8; 101x61mm.). 
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