The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton Poetry near Norwich

near Norwich

Original decorative cloth boards with the pictorial dust-jacket

Red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and front

it was Grahame's fourth book and began life as a series of bedtime stories told to his son Alastair

A VG+ copy of Welch's first collection of short stories

The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton Poetry near NorwichWith 74 wood engravings London: Navarre Society, 1953. Handsome reprint of the classic work on angling, very handsomely bound in full maroon calf by Bayntun's of Bath, with gilt fishing tool to front, highly gilt ornaments to spine, contrasting morocco labels, gilt turn ins and page edges; marbled pastedown pages and endpapers. A magnificent copy of this angling masterpiece, oft reprinted but seldom in such a fine binding.