The Complete Angler, or the contemplative man’s recreation … edited by John Major

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1866. First Little, Brown edition, one of 100 copies printed at the University Press: Welch, Bigelow & Co., Cambridge. Illustrated with 12 steel engraved plates (including facsimile of the 1653 title page), title leaf vignette and 74 wood engravings by Henry Marsh in text. Title page printed in red and black. xiv, 445 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full green morocco gilt, spine extra gilt, boards with six rule border and filigree cornerpieces, turn-ins elaborately gilt, marbled endsheets, a.e.g., by MATTHEWS. Fine copy. First Little, Brown edition, one of 100 copies printed at the University Press: Welch, Bigelow & Co., Cambridge. Illustrated with 12 steel engraved plates (including facsimile of the 1653 title page), title leaf vignette and 74 wood engravings by Henry Marsh in text. Title page printed in red and black. xiv, 445 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Coigney 88. For Matthews, c.f.: Binding in America 1680-1910, p. 96; Spawn & Kinsella, American Signed Bindings through 1876, pp. 176-7. Provenance: bookplate of famous bookseller and angler Charles E. Goodspeed