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Lot 106
Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023
7:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$600 -
900
Price Realized
$1,197
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Lot Description
[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Walton, Izaak The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation...
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., (1931). First and limited edition, #398/775 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. 4to. (iv), 224 pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 11 color plates, all with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's deluxe full vellum, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; illustrated endpapers; largely unopened; prelims foxed; scattered light foxing to text; in original glassine dust-jacket; in supplied paper-covered box; publisher's slip case wanting; Latimore & Haskell, p. 66-67; Riall, p. 175
A handsome copy.