1926 Rare Luxurious Binding by Riviere - The Compleat AnglerAuthor: Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. Title: The Compleat Angler. Publisher: London, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, [1926]. Language: Text in English. Size: 7" x 5". Pages: lxxxix 454 pages + The Anglers Calendar. Binding: Attractive and very good full dark green crushed morocco leather by Rivire, Bath. Gilt spine with raised bands, featuring elaborate angling themed tooling in compartments (fish, rod, creel). Covers with wide gilt decorative

The illustrator: As both the author and illustrator

[circa 1908]

and political thinker

Illustrations: Complete with the 8 full-page illustrations and the title vignettes by Thomas Seccombe

The work was internationally popular

The artwork includes detailed architectural ruins

Estimate: (Scarce with no or few other copies of this First Edition available for sale worldwide)

at Shakespear's Head over-against Catherine Street in the Stand

Maurice Lalau)

Seebohm over the rights to theatrical adaptations of the work

light staining on the upper outer corner of the last pages mainly index pages - as shown

complete with stylized Glasgow roses