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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington Limited, 1888. Leather. Near Fine. 11.5" by 9". Various. A beautiful Ramage bound limited edition of Izaak Walton's important work on fishing, a smart illustrated edition of only five hundred copies. The one hundredth edition of this important work.In a beautiful half crushed morocco binding by Ramage. A limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is numbered 304.Signed by the editor, R. B. Marston, to the limitation page. Complete in two volumes.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, nineteen plates, and in-text engravings. Collated, complete.Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-two plates, and in-text engravings. Collated, lacking one plate, Plate XXXI.'The Compleat Angler' is a well known seventeenth century work celebrating the art and spirit of fishing, in both prose and verse.The work was admired by the likes of Charles Lamb, who admired it for it's innocence and simplicity of the heart. In fact it is so…