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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. X-Library book. Standard wear to cover and typical library markings. Includes dust jacket. 100% Money Back Guarantee!!!.

Boards. With notes by Richard Hurd. Collected and Edited by Henry G. Bohn. (illustrator). Volume I only (of six). 8vo, cloth boards, frontis portrait, b&w plates, pp xvi, 538. In nineteenth century library cloth binding. Cloth marked, paper label to spine, hole in cloth to spine, inscription of library, acceptable condn. Poetry and prose. Mt Korong Miners Literary Institute.

Hard Cover. first edition thus. London: Henry G. Bohn. Poor with No dust jacket as issued. 1863. Hard Cover. The book is in a number of pieces. The binding threads are broken in numerous places. The front cover is detached. The cloth spine covering is completely gone. The front end paper and frontis portrait are attached to each other. The title page through Sculpture XVIII La Pieta are still bound together, All the paintings are detached as well as the first 2 designs. Design III through the rear end paper are bound together. As stated above- there are 2 plates missing: Jupiter and Leda and Michel Angelo's Dream. The frontispiece portrait is damp stained at the top edge 4 inches long by about an inch and a half deep not affecting the image with closed tears along the edges. The plates are damp stained along the edges, and are lightly to moderately foxed. If you require any other information or would like a scan, just ask. 10 By 12 1/2 Inches. Hard Cover. See Photos; Contents include: Sculpture: Bacchus, La Pieta, David, Christ, Monuments of Giuliano & Lorenzo De'Medici, La Madonna, Monument of Julius II. Pont. Max. , Religion Moses Virtue, Slaves, Christ Taken Down from the Cross, La Vittoria, Sampson Destroying the Philistines, Hercules Strangling Antaeus, La Pieta. Painting: Holy Family, (LACKING Jupiter and Leda) , La Pieta, The Last Judgement, Conversion St. Paul, Crucifixion of St. Peter, Designs: Cartoon from the Battle of Pisa, Christ on the mount, Annunciation, Fall of Phaeton, Rape of Ganymede, Titys, Baccanalia Di Putti, Christ with the Woman of Sumaria at the Well, The Crucifixion, Christ Taken Down for the Cross, Christ Scourged, Dead Christ, Venus and Cupid. Designs by Michel Angelo: Holy Family, St. Jerome, Virgin and Child, Jeremiah, Christ Healing the Sick, Holy Family, Shooting at a Target, An Old Man in a Go-Cart, (LACKING Michel Angelo's Dream) , Michel Angelo's Ring. Architecture: St. Peter's at Rome. Plan of the Church, Section Longitudinally, Side Elevation- as left at Michel Angelo's Death, Side Elevation- Present State, Front of St. Peter's. And lastly 2 portraits. One a frontispiece, the other is the last plate in the book.; Plates . BBmag Poor with No dust jacket as issued.

HardBack. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. 2nd Edition. 2 Volumes Complete Set. Reprint, Bell 1877, unusually with 2 title pages, the first dated 1859, reprinted from the First Edition. Yellow publishers advertisement endpapers, illustrated half title, vignette portrait flyleaf, two title pages, both illustrated, sixtytwo wonderful additional steel engraved and tissueguarded portraits. Very good clean tight sound square, no inscriptions or ownership signs of any kind, save small attractive armorial scrolled initial bookplate to pastedowns, light sporadic foxing to foreedges of leaves and occasionally to portraits. Beautifully bound in bright gilt lettered and blind embossed, illustrated, ruled and decorated red cloth gently rubbed to spine and slightly bumped to lower leading corner volume I. A good set of Hudibras for reader, scholar and collector alike, with great illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition Thus. First impression of the first edition thus - with 203 black and white woodcuts by various artists (all listed in the list of illustrations to the fore) including title-page vignette by Jackson Sc and frontispiece showing a portrait of Isaak Walton copied by C. R. Bone and engraved by H. Robinson from an original by Housman in the National Gallery. ***Very good in olive green blind embossed original cloth-covered boards with gilt decorative bordered titles to spine. Five-pages of publisher's adverts 'Bohn's Library of Standard books' to the fore. Black ink mark to front board. Corners of boards rubbed and slightly bumped. Spine faded. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed, nicked and frayed. Front hinge tender and starting to split. Small owner's name in pencil to top of first free endpaper (can easily be erased). No foxing. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***xix prelim-pages plus 496 pages plus one-page list of fishing-tackle makers plus seven-page Bohn's Classical & Miniature Library of Books etc including to pastedown to the rear.192 mm x 126 mm.***Contents: List of Engravings, Life of Walton, Walton's Will, Author's Dedication to John Offley, Esq., Author's address to his Readers, Contemporary Verses, English and Latin. ***PART I. The First Day. Ch.I. Conference betwixt an Angler, a Hunter, and a Falconer, each commending his recreation; The Second Day: Ch.II. Observations of the Otter and Chub; Ch.III. How to fish for and draw the Chavender or Chub; Ch.IV. Observations of the nature and breeding of the trout and how to fish for him. And the Milk-maid's song; Ch.V. More Directions how to fish for, and how to make for the trout an Artificial Minnow and Flies; with some merriment; The Fourth Day: Ch.V. continued, on Trout Fishing; Ch.VI. Observations on the Umber or Grayling, and directions how to fish for them. Ch.VII. Observations of the Salmon, with directions how to fish for him; Ch.VIII. Observations of the Luce or Pike, with directions how to fish for him; Ch.IX. Observations of the Carp, with directions how to fish for him; Ch.X. Observations of the Bream, and directions to catch him; Ch.XI. Observations of the Trench, and advice on how to angle for him; Ch.XII. Observations of th Perch, and directions how to fish for him; Ch.XIII. Observations of the Eel, and other fish that want scales, and how to fish for him; Ch.XV. Observations of the Barbel, and directions how to fish for him; Ch.XV. Observations of the Guddgeon, the Ruffe, and the Bleak, and how to fish for them; Ch.XVI. Is of Nothing; or that which is nothing worth; The Fifth day: Ch.XVII: Of Roach and Dace, and how to fish for them; and of Cadis; Ch.XVIII. Of the Minnow or Penk, of the Loach, and of the Bull-Head, or Miller's Thumb; Ch.XIX. Of Several rivers, and some observations of fish; Ch.XX - Of Fish-ponds, and how to order them; Ch.XXI. Directions for making of a Line, and for the colouring of both Rod and Line; Appendix on Rods, Lines, Hooks, and other Tackle, according to the latest authorities. ***PART II: The Complete Angler; by Charles Cotton. Instructions how to angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear stream; Life of Cotton. The First Day - Ch.I. Conference between a country gentleman proficient in Fly-fishing and a traveller who become his pupil; Ch.II. An account of the principal rivers in Derbyshire. Viator Lodges at Piscator's House; The Second Day - Ch.III. Conference containing a description of Cotton's fishing-house, with his apology for writing a supplement to Walton's book; Ch.IV. Of Angling for Trout or Grayling, divied into three branches; Ch.V. Of fly-Fishing; Ch.VI. Fishing at the top continued - further directions for Fly-making when the Grayling is in season - Rock in Pikepool; Ch.VII. Fishing at the Top. Flies for the month of January, February, March, and part of May; including under May, particular directions how to bait with the Green-drake; Ch.VIII. Fishing at the top continued, Flies for the end of May, following months etc.etc.***.