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The Compleat Angler
Izaak Walton, 1927
已結束2022年10月6日
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The Compleat Angler
Izaak Walton, 1927
WALTON, Izaak (1593-1683) and COTTON, Charles (1630-1687). The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Edited by John Major. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927.
A beautiful Cosway binding, the front cover inset with a watercolor scene by C.B. Currie after George Morland, entitled "The Angling Party." The Doheny copy. The miniature is a lovely scene, among the largest and most detailed of Currie's works.
Quarto (255 x 201mm). Illustrated by E. Fitch Daglish. Levant morocco by Rivière, the glazed miniature surrounded by a gilt rule and scrolling gilt grapevine ornaments, gilt-lettered above and below the miniature, lower cover with grapevine corner ornaments, spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two and with grapevine ornaments in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, green moiré silk endleaves, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by the binder on upper turn-in and lower doublure and by the artist on upper doublure. Fleece-lined cloth slipcase. Provenance: Estelle Doheny, American philanthropist, 1875-1958 (morocco bookplate, her sale, Christie’s New York, 18 October 1988, lot 1561).
Izaak Walton, 1927
WALTON, Izaak (1593-1683) and COTTON, Charles (1630-1687). The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Edited by John Major. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927.
A beautiful Cosway binding, the front cover inset with a watercolor scene by C.B. Currie after George Morland, entitled "The Angling Party." The Doheny copy. The miniature is a lovely scene, among the largest and most detailed of Currie's works.
Quarto (255 x 201mm). Illustrated by E. Fitch Daglish. Levant morocco by Rivière, the glazed miniature surrounded by a gilt rule and scrolling gilt grapevine ornaments, gilt-lettered above and below the miniature, lower cover with grapevine corner ornaments, spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two and with grapevine ornaments in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, green moiré silk endleaves, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by the binder on upper turn-in and lower doublure and by the artist on upper doublure. Fleece-lined cloth slipcase. Provenance: Estelle Doheny, American philanthropist, 1875-1958 (morocco bookplate, her sale, Christie’s New York, 18 October 1988, lot 1561).
The Compleat Angler
Izaak Walton, 1927
WALTON, Izaak (1593-1683) and COTTON, Charles (1630-1687). The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Edited by John Major. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927.
A beautiful Cosway binding, the front cover inset with a watercolor scene by C.B. Currie after George Morland, entitled "The Angling Party." The Doheny copy. The miniature is a lovely scene, among the largest and most detailed of Currie's works.
Quarto (255 x 201mm). Illustrated by E. Fitch Daglish. Levant morocco by Rivière, the glazed miniature surrounded by a gilt rule and scrolling gilt grapevine ornaments, gilt-lettered above and below the miniature, lower cover with grapevine corner ornaments, spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two and with grapevine ornaments in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, green moiré silk endleaves, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by the binder on upper turn-in and lower doublure and by the artist on upper doublure. Fleece-lined cloth slipcase. Provenance: Estelle Doheny, American philanthropist, 1875-1958 (morocco bookplate, her sale, Christie’s New York, 18 October 1988, lot 1561).
Izaak Walton, 1927
WALTON, Izaak (1593-1683) and COTTON, Charles (1630-1687). The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Edited by John Major. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927.
A beautiful Cosway binding, the front cover inset with a watercolor scene by C.B. Currie after George Morland, entitled "The Angling Party." The Doheny copy. The miniature is a lovely scene, among the largest and most detailed of Currie's works.
Quarto (255 x 201mm). Illustrated by E. Fitch Daglish. Levant morocco by Rivière, the glazed miniature surrounded by a gilt rule and scrolling gilt grapevine ornaments, gilt-lettered above and below the miniature, lower cover with grapevine corner ornaments, spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two and with grapevine ornaments in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, green moiré silk endleaves, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by the binder on upper turn-in and lower doublure and by the artist on upper doublure. Fleece-lined cloth slipcase. Provenance: Estelle Doheny, American philanthropist, 1875-1958 (morocco bookplate, her sale, Christie’s New York, 18 October 1988, lot 1561).
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