WALTONIANA: INEDITED REMAINS IN VERSE AND PROSE OF IZAAK WALTON. AUTHOR OF THE COMPLETE ANGLER. With notes and preface by Richard Herne Shepherd.

1878 1st edition. 8vo (139 x 211mm). Not paginated (c.128pp). Publisher's device to title-page, text printed within ornate borders throughout. Dark olive cloth, blind-ruled on upper and lower board, spine titled in gilt, rough-cut edges.

A collection of Walton's writings, in verse and prose. "We have said that the reader regrets that Walton should have left so little behind him: his 'Angler' and his Lives are all that is known to most. But we are now enabled to present those who love his memory with a collection of fugitive pieces, in verse and prose, extending in date of composition over a period of fifty years, - beginning with the Elegy on Donne, in 1633m and terminating only with his death in 1683. All these, however unambitious, are more or less characteristic of the man, and impregnated with the same spirit of genial piety that distinguishes the two well-known books to which they form a supplement." (From Richard Herne Shepherd's preface). Contents include:- An elegie upon Dr. Donne; Lines on a portrait of Donne; Commendatory verses prefixed to The Merchants Mappe of Commerce; Preface to Quarles' Shepherds Oracles; Couplet on Dr. Richard Sibbes; Dedication of Reliquiae Wottonianae; On the death of William Cartwright; Preface to Sir John Skeffington's Heroe of Lorenzo; Comendatory verses to the author of Scintillula Altaris; Dedication of the Life of Donne and advertisement to the reader; Daman and Dorus: An humble eglog; To my Reverend friend the author of The Synagogue; Epitaph on his second wife, Anne Ken; Letter to Edward Ward; Dedication of the third edition of Reliquiae Wottonianae; Letter to Marriott; Preface etc. to Thealma and Clearchus; Letter to John Aubrey; Izaak Walton's last will and testament.