NEAR UDIMORE, RIVER ROTHER 



CHAPTER XII 



Walton's literary work Lives of great divines List of 

 his works "Thealma and Clearchus" Walton's pre- 

 faceWalton's letter to Colonel Venables on the publi- 

 cation of his " Angling Improv'd." 



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WALTON'S LIVES OF GREAT DIVINES 



VERY author or editor of a "Life" of Walton 

 has given more or less a detailed account of 

 these works and the circumstances under which 

 they were written. It is not my intention to repeat 

 these oft-repeated tales ; nevertheless I should con- 

 sider my sketch very incomplete without a brief 

 mention not only of these lives, but of the other 

 writings of the good old author. 



The first complete edition of four of the "Lives" 

 was published in 1670, and is thus described by the 

 author 



