PREFACE. 



tradl * a number of parallel pafTages from other 

 acknowledged writings of Walton, of themfelves 

 almoft fufficient to fix the queftion on internal 

 evidence alone. 



In the Britifh Mufeum copy of this tradt is the 

 following note on one of the fly-leaves in the auto- 

 graph of the late William Pickering : — 



'*The prefent is the only copy I have met with after 

 twenty years' fearch, excepting the one in Emanuel College, 

 Cambridge. W. Pickering." 



The copy defcribed above [i.e.^ the Emanuel 

 College copy] appears to be the fame edition as 

 the prefent [that now in the Britifh Mufeum], 

 but has the following variation. After the title- 

 page is printed 



The Author to the Stationer 

 "Mr. Brome," &c., and the Epiflle ends with 



* York, 1795, pp. X. 70. 



