Compleat Walton, The
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- Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1929
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Nonesuch Press Edition of “The Compleat Walton”
[NONESUCH PRESS]. WALTON, Izaac. The Compleat Walton. The Compleat Angler. The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson. With Love and Truth & Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1929.
First edition of Walton’s complete writings. Limited to 1600 numbered copies, 1100 copies for the United Kingdom and 500 copies for Random House in the United States (this copy being No. 1320). Octavo (8 3/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 208 x 123 mm.). [6, blank], x, 631, [1, imprint], [4, blank] pp. Six engraved portraits (Walton, Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, and Sanderson) by Charles Sigrist, including frontispiece. Ten drawings of fish and a lead weight by Thomas Poulton, printed from line blocks, the fish color stencilled by the Curwen Press. Two seals of Donne redrawn by Poulton and printed in red.
Original full natural morocco with front cover decoratively tooled in gilt and spine lettered in gilt in compartments. Top edge gilt on the rough, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Small Ex Libris bookplate on front pastedown. A fine copy.
“Advertised in the 1928 Prospectus…and in Bodkin permitting (1929) where F[rancis] M[eynell] and Keynes wrote: ‘Walton’s writings have never before been collected under one cover. The ‘Angler’ and the ‘Lives’ have always been dressed up separately so as to make their appeal to entirely different classes of readers, and Walton’s full achievement has never been allowed to appear. The new edition, which may be fitly nicknamed The Compleat Walton, should tend to correct the current misdirection of Waltoniculture. It shows him as the literary artist painting nature and the countryside, touching in the characters of his friends, writing occasional verse, or conducting ecclesiastical polemics, with equal grace and facility…The edition is complete in one volume…It contains the ‘Compleat Angler’ from the edition of 1668, with the variants of 1676 as an appendix; the ‘Lives’; ‘Love and Truth’; and miscellaneous Poetry and Prose. The editor supplies a Life of Walton and bibliographical notes’…This was the first edition of Walton’s complete writings” (Dreyfus).
Dreyfus 61.
[NONESUCH PRESS]. WALTON, Izaac. The Compleat Walton. The Compleat Angler. The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson. With Love and Truth & Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1929.
First edition of Walton’s complete writings. Limited to 1600 numbered copies, 1100 copies for the United Kingdom and 500 copies for Random House in the United States (this copy being No. 1320). Octavo (8 3/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 208 x 123 mm.). [6, blank], x, 631, [1, imprint], [4, blank] pp. Six engraved portraits (Walton, Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, and Sanderson) by Charles Sigrist, including frontispiece. Ten drawings of fish and a lead weight by Thomas Poulton, printed from line blocks, the fish color stencilled by the Curwen Press. Two seals of Donne redrawn by Poulton and printed in red.
Original full natural morocco with front cover decoratively tooled in gilt and spine lettered in gilt in compartments. Top edge gilt on the rough, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Small Ex Libris bookplate on front pastedown. A fine copy.
“Advertised in the 1928 Prospectus…and in Bodkin permitting (1929) where F[rancis] M[eynell] and Keynes wrote: ‘Walton’s writings have never before been collected under one cover. The ‘Angler’ and the ‘Lives’ have always been dressed up separately so as to make their appeal to entirely different classes of readers, and Walton’s full achievement has never been allowed to appear. The new edition, which may be fitly nicknamed The Compleat Walton, should tend to correct the current misdirection of Waltoniculture. It shows him as the literary artist painting nature and the countryside, touching in the characters of his friends, writing occasional verse, or conducting ecclesiastical polemics, with equal grace and facility…The edition is complete in one volume…It contains the ‘Compleat Angler’ from the edition of 1668, with the variants of 1676 as an appendix; the ‘Lives’; ‘Love and Truth’; and miscellaneous Poetry and Prose. The editor supplies a Life of Walton and bibliographical notes’…This was the first edition of Walton’s complete writings” (Dreyfus).
Dreyfus 61.