WALTON, IZAAK and COTTON, CHARLES. The Complete Angler. 2 volumes. [16], clxiv, [4], [clxv]-ccxii, [2], 129, [1] pp. II: [4], [131]–436, [32 (index)] pp. Steel-engraved plates and in-text illustrations, extra-illustrated with a set of proof plates printed on India paper, mounted on heavy paper, and bound in for all illustrations including the headpiece decorations. Large 8vo, bound in 20th-century dark green straight-grain morocco by Zaehnsdorf (dated 1914) for Bartlett & Co, Boston, covers framed in quadruple gilt fillets with gilt fish motifs in corners, spines similarly decorated, board edges with gilt fillets, all edges gilt, spines gently sunned; turn-ins with gilt fillets and roll, pastedowns with small monogram and book labels; occasional minor foxing/spotting; vol. II with mild waterstaining to lower outer portions, more pronounced to first few leaves and later ones. First Nicolas Edition, large paper copy, edited by Sir Harris Nicolas. The most lavish of all Pickering's editions. London: William Pickering, 1836