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Lot 77
Sale 6426 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Nov 13, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$600 -
800
Lot Description
[ANGLING - FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS]. WALTON, Izaak (1593-1683) and Charles COTTON (1630-1687). The Complete Angler [and] The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Sanderson. London: John Major, 1824, 1825.
2 works in 2 volumes, small 8vo. 14 and 11 engraved plates. (Spotting and toning, chiefly to frontispieces and title-pages.) Contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt, smooth spines divided into three compartments gilt frames, gilt-lettering in center, all edges gilt, CONCEALING FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS: The Complete Angler depicting two jaunty 17th-century gentlemen with their rods and lines; The Lives depicting a portrait of Walton (joints discretely repaired, recased with new endbands). Provenance: John Train (bookplate); Lucy S. Sanford (ownership inscription); J. Lister (ownership signature).
Second Major edition of The Complete Angler; First Major edition of The Lives.
[With:] WALTON. The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Sanderson. London: John Major, 1825. 11 engraved plates on india paper. Contemporary calf gilt, all edges gauffered and gilt (rebacked preserving original spine). LARGE PAPER ISSUE OF THE FIRST MAJOR EDITION.
This lot is located in Chicago.



