ΤΟ WHICH IS ADDED, A MEMOIR OF MR. IZAAC
WALTON, BY WILL: DOWLING, ESQUIRE, of the
INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, WITH
ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES, ENGRAVINGS,
INDEX, ETC., ETC.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HENRY WASHBOURNE AND CO.,

Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row.

MDCCCLVII.

ADVERTISEMENT.

IN offering this edition of Walton's Lives to the public it may be observed, that it is founded upon the one which the late Mr. Major, with his usual taste in embellishing, put forth some years back.

A Memoir of Izaak Walton is now added, it being highly desirable that each reader should have some account of the man who has written, with so much earnestness of purpose, the five lives contained in this volume.

The chief object of the Memoir is to exhibit the intellectual and moral character of Walton, and those qualities which made him the prized friend of so many famous men.

Some further explanatory notes and additional woodcuts and engravings have been inserted, the text carefully revised, and the Index enlarged, in the present edition, which will, it is hoped, render the work still more interesting to all who respect the honesty of Walton and admire the virtues of the men whose lives he has written.