The Complete Angler…by Izaak Walton and…Charles Cotton…With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas

London: William Pickering, 1836. First Nicolas Edition. Engraved title-page, 48 engraved plates, two pages of music and two woodcuts of the Walton seal, 9 head-pieces, and 2 portraits of Walton. Title pages printed in red and black. 2 vols. 4to (10-1/8 x 6-/12 in.). Full contemporary green morocco, sides with triple gilt fillet borders and elaborate rectangular frame comprised of gilt arabesques, spine richly gilt in six compartments with angling motifs, titles in gilt, a.e.g. Spines a bit darkened and rubbed, some foxing. Very good. First Nicolas Edition. Engraved title-page, 48 engraved plates, two pages of music and two woodcuts of the Walton seal, 9 head-pieces, and 2 portraits of Walton. Title pages printed in red and black. 2 vols. 4to (10-1/8 x 6-/12 in.). One of the finest illustrated editions of Walton ever published. For it, Pickering used 27 of the most prominent artist, painters, and engravers to illustrated it. Coigney 44