Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1874
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/16
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8357 Wauron (1.) Comprnat Anauer. A Collection of all the first five | Editions, as published in the Author’s Life-Time, and exhibiting his various Alterations; the fifth being enlarged by the Addition of the first Edition of C. Cotton’s Compleat Angler, and the fourth Edition of Col. R. Venables’ Experienc’d Angler, 5 vol. engraved titles and cuts, Jine copies, morocco extra, g. e. by F. Bedford, 16mo, 1653-55-61-68-76 *,* Although the excessive rarity of the sine gua non of an Angler’s Library, A FIRST WALTON, is too well known to require any comment, it may be right to point out that the chance of again obtaining the entire five editions, as successively enlarged by the author, is almost hopeless, as nearly all the known copies are now fixtures in public libraries. Mr. Corser’s set sold for £140. 3308 Watton (Iz.) Lives or Dr. Joun Donne, Str Henry Worron, Mr. Ricoarp Hooker anp Mr. George HeErBert, portraits, presentation copy, with WALTON’S AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION, “ for my brother Chalkhill Iz. Wa.” green morocco, g. e. 8vo. 1670 *,* This presentation copy, with Walton’s autograph inscription, sets at rest the controversy respecting the existence of Chalkhill.—wScee big | autograph note of Dr. Cotton on fly-leaf: 3359 eae (I.) and C. Cotton’s Complete Angler, with Lives and Notes by [Sir] John Hawkins, eee edition (4. e. first edition with merely a new titlepage), engra- vings by kyland (fine impressions), calf extra, g. e. by F. Bedford crown 8vo. 1766 8360 Walton (I.) and C. Cotton’s Complete Angler, with Notes by J. Major, 1824—Walton (I.) Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert and Sanderson, with Notes by J. Major, 1825, LARGE PAPER, india proof portraits and plates, green morocco, uneut, top edges gilt, the sides ornamented with gold tooling in the Grolier style crown 8vo. 2 vol. 38361 Walton (I.) and C. Cotton’s Complete Angler, frontispiece and wood- cuts, 1825— Walton (I.) Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Her- bert and Sanderson, ports. 1827, red morocco extra, 64mo. 2 vol. 8362 Ward (Ned) Vulgus Britannicus or the British Hudibras, 5 parts in 1, plates Bo. > 1710 3363 Warp (Ned) History of THE Granp REBELLION, digested into Verse, 3 vol. with portraits (before the numbers), and maps, jine copy in the original binding, scarce 8vo. 1718 *,* Beckford’s copy sold for £9 19s. 6d. and Lloyd’s for £9 9s. 3364 Ward (Ned) Nuptial Dialogues, 2 vol. port. and plates, calf, 12mo. 1737 8365 Ward (Ned) London Spy, calf extra, 9. e. 12mo. 1758 33866 Ward (T.) England’s Reformation, a Poem, plates, small 8vo. 1747 33867 Ward (W.) View of the History, Literature and Religion of the Hindoos, 2 vol. calf S00. 1817 33868 Wardell (J.) Municipal History of Leeds, plates, 8vo. Leeds, 1846 33869 Waring (E.) Recollections and Anecdotes of Edward Williams the Bard of Glamorgan, portratt by R. Cruikshank, calf qilt, 19mo, 1850