2 volumes, 4to (268 x 180 mm). Half-titles, titles printed in red and black, numerous engraved headpieces and illustrations throughout, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the addition of 45 full-page engraved plates, additional engraved portrait of Walton laid in. (Spotting throughout, minor offsetting of plates and illustrations to text, minor marginal dampstaining to several leaves.) Contemporary green morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt-ruled, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt (minor rubbing to extremities, a few minor nicks or scuffs).

First Nicolas edition, "one of the best, possibly the very best of...[the 146 editions of The Compleat Angler published between 1836 and 1901] with engravings after Stothard, Inskipp and others" (Percy Muir, Victorian Illustrated Books, 1971, p. 21).