Beschreibung:

Walton, Izaak, Charles Cotton, and Col. Robert Venables THE UNIVERSAL ANGLER, MADE SO, BY THREE BOOKS OF FISHING: THE FIRST WRITTEN BY MR. IZAAK WALTON; THE SECOND BY CHARLES COTTON, ESQ; THE THIRD BY COL. ROBERT VENABLES. LONDON: RICHARD MARRIOTT, 1676 8vo (5 7/8 x 3 1/2 in.; 147 x 90mm). Part I with engraved piscatorial title-page, 10 small copperplates of fish, 2 pages of music: Part II with engraved cipher on title-page: Part III with engraved piscatorial frontispiece by F.H. Van Houe, 10 copperplates as in Part I; some light marginal dampstaining throughout, Part I with expert restoration to title without loss of text or image, closed marginal tear to A5, repair to lower corner of G5 without loss of text, closed tear to lower corner of H, closed tear to S2, ownership inscriptions to verso of T6: Pt. III with paper flaw to A4, marginal tear to E5. Contemporary brown calf, covers ruled in blind, spine with raised bands in five compartments, second gilt lettered; minor repairs to head and tail of spine, corners bumped, some rubbing to extremities. Housed in brown solander box