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in good condition; and I congratulated 

 myself on having secured a "find" But 

 the book never came; and on calling for 

 it, I was informed there was doubt about 

 its genuineness. There was none until 

 I gave my address. 



The art of photography has rendered 

 the manufacture of spurious "early 

 editions" a game worth the candle, so 

 that a word of warning in this respect 

 will not be out of place. I was asked 

 2$ for one worth about 55. only the 

 other day. 



For this little work generally I will 

 only claim that it deals at greater length 

 with the principal works referred to than 

 is the case in any other single volume. 

 It would have been easy to give many 

 more references in praise of Walton and 

 his writings, but " enough is as good as 

 a feast" That it is published in the 

 three hundredth year since Walton's 

 birth is an accident: it was begun before 

 that " tercentenary " was thought of by 

 me. Indeed, although I have printed on 



