Izaak Walton’s Compleat Angler will be offered at £8000- 12,000 on September 26-27.
A first edition of the most famous work in angling literature will be offered at auction in North Yorkshire, writes Laura Chesters.
Printed by Thomas Maxey for the Fleet Street bookseller Richard Marriot in 1653, this first edition of Izaak Walton’s Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers Fishponds Fish and Fishing not unworth the Perusal of Most Anglers is estimated at £8000- 12,000 in Hutchinson Scott’s September 26-27 sale.