[JOSEPH CRAWHALL ILLUSTRATIONS],IZAAK WALTON: HIS WALLET BOOKE. London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1885. One of 500 copies, with hand-colored woodcuts by Joseph Crawhall. Three quarters green crushed levant morocco binding, with gilt angling devices in the spine panels -- by Zaehnsdorf. With an interesting autograph letter signed by Crawhall laid in -- (in which the artist regrets that he cannot consider taking on a project, since he has just returned to Newcastle following six month's recuperation following a gas explosion at his house). Coigny 126.
PROVENANCE: Estate of Jim Graham, former Washington, DC, Councilman Estimate $200-300
