4to. Title printed in green and black, 12 color-printed plates by Rackham tipped to mounts, numerous illustrations. (Some occasional spotting and light marginal toning.) Original vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (slight soiling and minor wear); custom white morocco-tipped slipcase. Provenance: Gift inscription, 1933.

LIMITED EDITION, number 190 of 775 copies of the “Deluxe edition,” SIGNED BY RACKHAM. Walton's definitive book on the sport of angling was illustrated by Rackham at a time when his publishers recognized how profitable his illustrated books were as gifts and "threw a presentation party, for the publication of The Compleat Angler, on 24th September 1931" (Riall). Latimore & Haskell, p. 66-67; Riall, p. 175.