[2], vi, 7-512 pp. Illustrated with 17 copper-engraved plates, including a hand-colored frontispiece and 2 music plates; extra-illustrated with an additional 35 plates including 7 hand-colored. (8vo) 20.5x12.5 cm (8x5"), finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full green morocco, covers ruled in gilt, spine with gilt-lettered and appropriately decorated compartments divided by raised bands, all edges gilt. Seventh Edition, and First Bagster Edition.
A lovely, and significant, edition of Walton's classic. The drawings by Wale have been re-engraved by Audinet, who also executed the seventeen "very excellent engravings of fish on copper which are found among the letter-press." Westwood & Satchell p.224.