[Crawhall (Joseph)]The Compleatest Angling Booke that Ever was Writ, first edition, [one of 40 copies], signed inscription by the author "Compleatest Angling Booke - unique copy in sheets - coloured - many proofs & plates in duplicate - finished & unfinished - many impressions from ancient wood cuts printed on the reverse of sheets" to leaf inserted at start, ink inscription "insert in binding W.W.S" beneath in a different hand, printed on rectos only (unpaginated), 42 engraved plates, some duplicates in different states, 4 with hand-colouring, most on india paper and mounted, but some tipped-in or pasted on text versos, some other plates (facsimiles, music etc.), numerous vignettes in the text, many hand-coloured, original watercolour of a trout over pencil with varnish bound in (slightly discoloured), some light foxing and offsetting, handsomely bound in later crimson morocco, richly tooled in gilt, each cover with central angling motif, spine gilt in compartments and with five raised bands, decorative tooled turn-ins, t.e.g., others uncut, housed in a custom cloth drop-back box (little rubbed), [Westwood & Satchell pp.69-70], 4to, [Newcastle upon Tyne, by and for the author], [1859].
[Crawhall (Joseph)]The Compleatest Angling Booke that Ever was Writ, first edition, [one of 40 copies], signed inscription by the author "Compleatest Angling Booke - unique copy in sheets - coloured - many proofs & plates in duplicate - finished & unfinished - many impressions from ancient wood cuts printed on the reverse of sheets" to leaf inserted at start, ink inscription "insert in binding W.W.S" beneath in a different hand, printed on rectos only (unpaginated), 42 engraved plates, some duplicates in different states, 4 with hand-colouring, most on india paper and mounted, but some tipped-in or pasted on text versos, some other plates (facsimiles, music etc.), numerous vignettes in the text, many hand-coloured, original watercolour of a trout over pencil with varnish bound in (slightly discoloured), some light foxing and offsetting, handsomely bound in later crimson morocco, richly tooled in gilt, each cover with central angling motif, spine gilt in compartments and with five raised bands, decorative tooled turn-ins, t.e.g., others uncut, housed in a custom cloth drop-back box (little rubbed), [Westwood & Satchell pp.69-70], 4to, [Newcastle upon Tyne, by and for the author], [1859].
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