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Full-Leather. Condition: NEW CONDITION. Dust Jacket Condition: NO DUST JACKET (AS ISSUED). David Gentleman (illustrator). First Collector's Edition. // NO REMAINDER MARK// PREVIOUS OWNER BLIND STAMP //gilt lettering and decoration//satin place mark ribbon//watered silk end papers//full leather binding with raised bands//all edges gilt.

4to (28x17cm), hardback, xxiv + 290pp + 12 colour plates. Very good condition in pale blue slipcase (a little unevenly faded, several marks to edges). Mild wear only. Pictures available on request.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Leather. Large 8vo. Published by The Easton Press, Norwalk, CT. 1976. 316 pgs. Illustrated. Bound in full leather with raised bands to the spine. Decorated gilt stamped boards and spine with all edges gilt. Silk moiree endsheets with silk bookmark sewn into the binding. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Compleat Angler, first published in 1653, has become a classic of English literature. Where other angling books are of limited appeal to those who do not fish, The Compleat Angler inspires readers from all walks of life to go in search of the countryside that Walton recreates with such vivid and loving writing. Walton appears to have spent his life in an oasis of calm conviviality and, what's more, he succeeded in bottling it for us to enjoy more and more with each century that glides silently by. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. David Gentleman (illustrator). Illustrated by David Gentleman . Collector;s edition.Publisher's bookplate. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon place marker. Bound in full green leather with lettering, border and design stamped in gilt. 337 pages. Four raised bands. Frontispiece Portrait by Jo Polseno. Keats lived from 1795 - 1821 and remains one of the best known and most celebrated poets to this day. Keats was one of the key figures in the romantic poetry genre, along with Lord Byron. On his deathbed Keats last request was to be buried under an unmarked tombstone with only the words: Here lies one whose name was writ in water. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in.Tall. Book.