Lot 228
Angling.- Gosden binding.- Walton (Izaak) and Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, John Major, 1824.
Hammer Price: £1,900
Description
Angling.- Gosden binding.- Walton (Izaak) and Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, [with] The Life of Isaac Walton by Thomas Zouch (1825), engraved plates, illustrations, occasional light foxing, contemporary black straight-grain morocco, stamped in blind and gilt, by Thomas Gosden, spine gilt in compartments, gilt metal clasps, g.e., housed in a fleece-lined modern burgundy morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, 8vo, John Major, 1824.
⁂ A fine copy of a Gosden binding (signed 'T.Gosden' to inner dentelle), with typical piscatorial tools to covers and spine.
Description
Angling.- Gosden binding.- Walton (Izaak) and Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, [with] The Life of Isaac Walton by Thomas Zouch (1825), engraved plates, illustrations, occasional light foxing, contemporary black straight-grain morocco, stamped in blind and gilt, by Thomas Gosden, spine gilt in compartments, gilt metal clasps, g.e., housed in a fleece-lined modern burgundy morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, 8vo, John Major, 1824.
⁂ A fine copy of a Gosden binding (signed 'T.Gosden' to inner dentelle), with typical piscatorial tools to covers and spine.
