WALTON, Izaak, Charles COTTON (1630-1387) and Robert VENABLES (ca. 1612-1687). The Universal Angler, Made so by Three Books of Fishing . London: Richard Marriot, 1676. Three parts in one, 8 o (148 x 88 mm). Part I: General title, sectional title and engraved title with the first 8 words of title set within a cartouche of dolphins and fish, 10 engravings of fish in text, 2 engraved pages of music for "The Angler's Song" (225-226, Q5r-v), 3 woodcut initials. Part II: separate title with Walton-Cotton engraved cypher. Part III: engraved piscatoral title by F.H. Van Hove, repeating the 10 engravings of fish from the first, woodcut initial. (Part I: without blank V4, engraved title with lower margin renewed and imprint supplied in facsimile, second divisional title misbound before general title and with inner margin renewed, general title with inner margin renewed and several closed tears, O1 with closed tear at head and large loss in lower corner with most of six lines of text supplied in facsimile; Part III: without blank H4 and "To the Ingenious Friend the Author" leaf [A8], A5 and E6 with repaired tears crossing text; a few marginal repairs throughout.) 19th-century brown hard-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt, bound uniformly with the preceding lots. Provenance : Robert Stayner Holford (by decent to) -- Sir George Holford -- A.S.W. Rosenbach (purchase information in the Rosenbach archives; sold to) -- Mary Louise Curtis Bok -- purchased from Harry Levinson, Beverly Hills (included in catalogue 60, "History, Literature, Science, Scholarship Before 1700," Part IV, item 1432). Fifth edition of Walton's Angler , FIRST EDITION of Cotton's continuation, fourth edition of Venables' contribution. This is the last edition published in Walton's lifetime and the first to appear with his name on the title-page. "In many respects it is the most interesting of the five editions. For the first time Walton's friend, Charles Cotton, brought his important contribution of particular interest to the fly fisherman as Walton was essentially a bait fisherman" (Coigney). Venables' Experienc'd Angler had first appeared in 1662 using the same illustrations as in the first five editions of The Compleat Angler . They were used a final time in the fifth edition of Venable's work, 1683. Coigney 6; Grolier Wither to Prior 951; Horne 6; Oliver 6.
WALTON, Izaak, Charles COTTON (1630-1387) and Robert VENABLES (ca. 1612-1687). The Universal Angler, Made so by Three Books of Fishing . London: Richard Marriot, 1676. Three parts in one, 8 o (148 x 88 mm). Part I: General title, sectional title and engraved title with the first 8 words of title set within a cartouche of dolphins and fish, 10 engravings of fish in text, 2 engraved pages of music for "The Angler's Song" (225-226, Q5r-v), 3 woodcut initials. Part II: separate title with Walton-Cotton engraved cypher. Part III: engraved piscatoral title by F.H. Van Hove, repeating the 10 engravings of fish from the first, woodcut initial. (Part I: without blank V4, engraved title with lower margin renewed and imprint supplied in facsimile, second divisional title misbound before general title and with inner margin renewed, general title with inner margin renewed and several closed tears, O1 with closed tear at head and large loss in lower corner with most of six lines of text supplied in facsimile; Part III: without blank H4 and "To the Ingenious Friend the Author" leaf [A8], A5 and E6 with repaired tears crossing text; a few marginal repairs throughout.) 19th-century brown hard-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt, bound uniformly with the preceding lots. Provenance : Robert Stayner Holford (by decent to) -- Sir George Holford -- A.S.W. Rosenbach (purchase information in the Rosenbach archives; sold to) -- Mary Louise Curtis Bok -- purchased from Harry Levinson, Beverly Hills (included in catalogue 60, "History, Literature, Science, Scholarship Before 1700," Part IV, item 1432). Fifth edition of Walton's Angler , FIRST EDITION of Cotton's continuation, fourth edition of Venables' contribution. This is the last edition published in Walton's lifetime and the first to appear with his name on the title-page. "In many respects it is the most interesting of the five editions. For the first time Walton's friend, Charles Cotton, brought his important contribution of particular interest to the fly fisherman as Walton was essentially a bait fisherman" (Coigney). Venables' Experienc'd Angler had first appeared in 1662 using the same illustrations as in the first five editions of The Compleat Angler . They were used a final time in the fifth edition of Venable's work, 1683. Coigney 6; Grolier Wither to Prior 951; Horne 6; Oliver 6.
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