Compleatest Angling Booke Writ Being by Crawhall Joseph (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1970 reprint. The Compleatest Angling Booke that ever was writ, being done out of ye Hebrewe and other Tongues by a person of Honor, Jospeh Crawhall, Freshet Press Inc., New York, 1970, 233 pp., 11¼ x 9½ inches. Full leather biding with gilt titling on spine, minor scuffing to cover, interior clean, tight binding. 1970 reprint. Fine condition. Contained in gold slipcase. Fine condition. Author's book about fishing. "In addition to being a skilled painter, wood engraver, and writer, Crawhall was an accomplished businessman, and active patron of the arts who frequently collaborated with illustrator and angler Charles Keene" (Sotheby's).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Clean With No Highlighting Or Marks Inside. In A Very Good Condition. Black Leather With Gilt Spine Titles. Illustrated With Etchings By The Author. Facsimile Book Of A Vintage Book. No Dust Jacket As Issued.books are NOT signed. We will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.

leather_bound. Condition: Fine. First THUS. [233] pp.; profusely ill., slip-cover, 4to.: Bright, sharp copy with no ownership markings. In original slipcase little to no wear.Appears to have never been read: Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1970). (1881) 1970 new edition. Large 4to (242 x 294mm). Pp239. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout, full bonded leather gilt, decorative endpapers. Very good in slightly marked slip-case. Still in cellophane wrapping. "A very realistic black and white facsimile of the 2nd edition (Newcastle, 1881, 100 copies); the paper and the binding closely match the style of the original." (R.J.W. Coleby). .

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1970). (1881) 1970 new edition. Large 4to. Pp239. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout, full bonded leather gilt, decorative endpapers. Fine in slipcase. "A very realistic black and white facsimile of the 2nd edition (Newcastle, 1881, 100 copies); the paper and the binding closely match the style of the original." (R.J.W. Coleby). .

First edition thus. Illustrated in black, white and color. Fine copy in fine slip case. Gilt decorated hard cover. Black leather.

1st ed. thus full leather Nice copy quarto ccxxxiijpp., illusts., Bound in black leather with gilt spine titles. Illustrated with with etchings by the author. Facsimile of the second edition of 1881. In publisher's slip-case.

Hard Cover. First Edition. One of only 40 copies written, engraved and printed "for friends". Quarto, unpaginated throughout; blank, title page, pp. [194] with 97 text leaves printed recto only, of which 2 pages either rubricated or hand coloured by the artist. With 30 mounted etched plates on india paper of which 3 are hand-coloured by the author. Brown full morocco with bevelled boards and 5 raised bands; gilt titles to spine and floral decoration in black to compartments with black fillets and further embellishments to boards; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. With a letter from Crawhall to Oswin John Charlton dated 1892 laid-in. Leather lightly surface scuffed with faint traces of polish. Etched bookplate of William Davison to front paste-down and armorial bookplate of Oswin John Charlton to ffep; "With the Author's Compliments" boldly inscribed to p. [9]. An excellent copy. The author's first book, published anonymously. Handmade in every respect and limited to 40 copies "for friends" Crawhall's Angling Booke is a legendary rarity among angling collectors. This copy curiously bound without 31st 'plate' - the engraved initial letter at the start of the text, as well as the usual watercolour of the trout found in most copies; every copy we have handled has been different. The letter, on headed paper from Crawhall's London address, refers to Charlton's profession and to publications relating to the Radcliffe family of Cumberland and Northumberland, and to his own "desperate attempt at being a young man" despite being then in his sixties. Charlton, one of the Charltons of Hesleyside in Northumberland, was alocal antiquary who wrote for "Archaelogia Aeliana", the journal of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. "A very curious and original work and one of the chief rarities of the angling bibliophile's collection. only forty copies were struck off for private circulation." W & S. Westwood & Satchell pp., 60-70; Felver pp., 14-15.

4to, 28.5x23.5cm. Second edition. Limited to 100 copies, printed by Andro Reid for the author. Coarse-ish paper cream in tone. pp(2)/CCXXXIII(3)/(2) including single blank preliminary & final leaves; the final printed leaf with illustration and "The End" at recto, and colophon at verso. With numerous illustrations and decorations, several of which with degrees of hand-colouring, and eight plates. Original full black leather re-backed & -cornered in black morocco c1970 (receipt for work done loosely inserted), retaining the original spine less up to 2.5cm at head and just over 1cm at foot; cream replacement endpapers. The securely laid-down portion of the original spine rubbed, grazed, chipped, and surface-cracked - though gilt title, author's name, publication date (MDCCCLXXXI), and gilt & blindstamped rules all still clearly visible. Boards with blindstamped panels, blindstamped outlines of sharp spikes extending some 5cm from hinges, and gilt ruled borders; front also with central blindstamped author's device. Both front and rear boards a little rubbed, and with a number of lightish scratchmarks, indentations, and grazes; board edges lightly rubbed, bumped & grazed. Blank preliminary & final leaves and title-page spotted, occasional faint & sparse spotting elsewheres. Gilt top edge of text-block a little rubbed, other edges toned. Binding holding firmly and still of decent appearance. Contents complete, and generally clean, tight and very good. GOOD+ copy. Inscribed "With love & best wishes - from the author to his niece Ethel Chapman / april 23. 1885." in upper margin of page XI.

4to. pp. ccxxxiii, [6]. numerous text illus. (most full-page). A fine copy in original leatherette. slipcase. Facsimile reprint of the second edition of 1881 which was limited to 100 copies (only 40 copies were printed of the first edition of 1859). cfSlater p. 31. cfStarkman & Read p. 72. cfWestwood & Satchell pp. 69-70.