The Compleat Angler.

Creator

Izaak Walton

Title

Coverage

Boston and New York

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Co.

Date

1909

Description

The Riverside Press edition, designed by Bruce Rogers. Bound by Lorenz Schwartz at The Zahn Bindery, circa 1909. Bound in full olive green morocco, ornately gilt-tooled on both covers with a water, fish and lily pad design that follows the outside hinge along the spine. Twin pairs of hand-tooled, scaled fish are enveloped within multiple gilt tooled wavy lines of water and interspersed lily pads, which culminate in a much smaller gilt-tooled fish.

Relation

From the collection of Nolan J. Goodman