Or the contemplative man's recreation being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing in two parts. Prefixed with lives of the authors and notes, historical, critical and explanatory. Edited with an Introduction by Richard Le Gallienne.
The Complete Angler Or the contemplative man's recreation being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing in two parts. Prefixed with lives of the authors and notes, historical, critical and explanatory. Edited with an Introduction by Richard Le Gallienne.
Bodley Head, 1897.
First edition illustrated by Edmund New. 4to. Bound by Bayntun Riviere in contemporary green half morocco over green boards. Raised bands on the spine gilt lettering and motifs. Marbled end papers and top edge gilt, the rest uncut. Illustrated profusely throughout by Edmund H. New. A fine copy, with a light band of fading to the top of the front board.
Edmund New "received his first commissions from John Lane of the Bodley Head. The most important of these was for Le Gallienne's handsome edition of The Compleat Angler... This work was warmly received by the public and it put Edmund New in the first rank of contemporary illustrators." [William Morris Society]
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