Walton, Izaak

THE COMPLEAT WALTON. [spine title]. The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson. With Love and Truth, & Miscellaneous Writings.

Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. Pp. x+632, engraved frontispiece portrait and 5 plates (one lacking the tissue guard), l0 coloured text illustrations of fish, 2 seals of John Donne re-drawn by Poulton and printed in red, marbled endpapers, bibliographical notes, indices; full tan morocco, spine lettered in gilt between raised bands, author's initials within decorative oval frame in gilt at centre of upper board, a couple of tiny dents to lower board; top edges rough gilt, others uncut; bookplate of Edward Wheewall Holden on upper pastedown, the plates faintly offset; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1929. Edition limited to l,600 numbered copies. McKitterick 61.*Lacking the slipcase. Sir Edward Wheewall Holden (1885-1947) took his family carriage and saddlery business, Holden & Frost, into a partnership with General Motors to form Australia's first automobile manufacturer. Holden n was influential in the company's expansion into motor-body building, and its use of highly automated mass production technology. He was also the foundation director and first chairman of the South Australian Industries Assistance Corporation, and served in the South Australian Legislative Council from 1935-47. Item #135600

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