THE COMPLEAT ANGLER Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish and Fishing. In Two Parts.With the Lives of the Authors: and Notes Historical, Critical, Supplementary and Explanatory; by Sir John Hawkins.

Seventh Edition (Bagster's First), 8vo, bound in half calf gilt, recently rebacked, with marbled boards, new endpapers, [vi], pp512, indexed, plus pp2 publisher's adverts, b/w portrait frontis, illustrated with b/w plates and text drawings. Magazine cutting portrait of Walton fixed to original front endpaper, pencil gift inscription and notes to title page and rear endpaper, and some throughout, right hand margin of pp171/2 neatly removed, but text not affected, boards rather rubbed. A V. Good copy overall.