Heading: (Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)
Author: Walton, Izaak
Title: The Compleat Angler, Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation
Place Published: London
Publisher:George G. Harrap & Co.
Date Published: [1931]
Description:

12 color plates, 9 head-pieces, 13 tail-pieces, two textual illustrations, and title-page vignette by Arthur Rackham. (4to) original full vellum, lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt vignette on spine, top edge gilt, original slipcase. No. 476 of 775 copies.

Signed by the illustrator at the limitation statement. Since its first publication in 1653, The "Compleat Angler" has become the third most reprinted book in the English language, next to the Holy Bible, and John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", comprising 456 different editions up to 1989, and countless foreign language translations. It was inevitable, that Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), the greatest English book illustrator of the 20th century, would account for one of the more notable incarnations of "The Angler." Latimore & Haskell p.66. Laid in is an announcement for Clement Moore's The Night Before Christmas, with Rackham illustrations.

Slipcase with some soiling and light wear; volume spine sunned; near fine.