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WALTON, Izaak (1593-1683), & Charles COTTON (1630-1687). The Complete Angler or contemplative man's recreation being a discourse of rivers fish-ponds fish and fishing written by... Walton and instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream by.. Cotton With original memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas. London: Charles Whittingham for William Pickering, 1836. 2 volumes extended to 12, large 2° (520 x 372mm). 4° text inlaid to size, 12 specially printed additional letterpress volume titles in red and black to size, otherwise text and plates mounted to size throughout. Engraved portraits, frontispiece and plates after Stothard, Inskipp and others, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with approximately 1400 portraits, views, plates, original watercolours, autograph letters, printed pamphlets and broadsides. Near-contemporary brown morocco gilt, covers panelled in gilt, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, third and fourth compartments, the others panelled, gilt, turn-ins, gilt edges (light scuffing to extrremities, the foot of the spine of the first volume with old damp damage). AN EXCEPTIONAL AND EXTRAORDINARY COMPILATION, assembled by A.A.W[eston] between 1864 and 1868. Based on what Westwood and Satchell call 'One of the handsomest publications of modern times', the work has been extended in both size and format to include about 43 original watercolour or wash drawings, 21 autograph items, 128 sporting prints, 100 fish plates (31 coloured), 15 coloured bird plates, 351 portraits, 462 views, 310 general prints and 8 pamphlets or broadsides. Some of the highlights are: vol.I: 1). [ANON]. Original pencil and watercolour sketch (135 x 180mm), titled in pencil 'St. Paul's Covent Garden after the fire'. 2). William LAUD. The Archbishop of Canterbury's or his funerall speech, preacht by himself on the scaffold.. London: 1644, 4°, 9ll [Wing L-599] 3). [ANON.] The Downfall of Greatnesse. For the losse of Goodnesse. A poem: or, a short survey of Thomas Lord Wentworth, Late Earle of Strafford. [London:] 1641, 4°, 4ll. [Wing D-2086] 4). John GRENVILLE (1st Earl of Bath, 1628-1701). Document signed, [?1688], concerning expenditure on St. James' Park from Midsummer 1687 to Midsummer 1688. 5). William BRADSHAW Bradshaw's Ghost: being a dialogue.. third edition . [?London:] 1659, 4°, 10ll [Wing B-4165]. vol.II: 6). [ANON]. Original oil-sketch on paper of a Perch, (225 x 335mm), varnished. 7). [ANON]. Original pen, wash and watercolour study of a washer-woman, (223 x 115mm) 8). Marcus Willemsz DOORNICK (publisher). Afbbelding van de Stadt London.. Delineation of the Citie of London, Shewing how far the said citie is burnt down, and what places doe yet remain standing . Amsterdam: Doornick, 1666. Broadsheet (500 x 542mm). Engraved map above text in Dutch, French and English. (Close-shaved). [Wing A-747A]. 9). Paul SANDBY Windsor from Datchet Lane , hand-coloured etched view, (180 x 255mm), (shaved into image). vol.III: 10). ?Thomas ROWLANDSON (1756-1827). Original pen, ink and watercolour sketch of a fishing party in a punt on a lake in a cultivated landscape (210 x 275mm). 11). William WORDWORTH. ALS, undated, 3pp., addressed to Samuel Rogers. 12). Humphrey DAVY. ALS, August 15 1802, 4pp. with integral address panel, to S. Purkis. 13). J.C. LAVATER. Autograph document, dated December 19 1795, 1p. 14). Frances, Duchess of PORTLAND. Document signed, September 10 1683, 1p. 15). [ANON.] Original brown and blue wash sketch of a pictureque bridge over a stream through a wood (85 x 120mm). vol.IV: 16). REMBRANDT van Riijn. Nude man seated on the ground with one leg extended, second state of two [Bartsch 196]; A peasant in a cap, standing leaning on a stick [Bartsch 133], both mounted on a single sheet. 17). S.T. COLERIDGE. ALS, February 17 1803, 4pp. with integral address panel, to Samuel Purkis. 18). [ANON.] The South prospect of the City of New York, in North America . London: London Magazine, 1762. Engr