176 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



Classics," published by J. M. Dent and Co. At 

 the end of the volume is the following note 



" This issue of Walton's Lives is based upon 

 John Major's edition of 1825, which was 

 printed from a copy of the edition of 1675, 

 ' corrected by Walton s own pen.' Major's 

 ' illustrative notes ' have been preserved, with 

 some modifications of later hands. Mr. AUSTIN 

 DOBSON has read the text, added the margi- 

 nalia, and contributed the supplementary 

 notes. I. G. 



"Aug. 9, Walton's Birthday, 1898." 



WALTON'S LITERARY WORKS 

 ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER 



1633. If one may judge by the lines addressed to 

 him by S. P. (supposed to be Samuel 

 Page) Walton must have been recog- 

 nised as a poet as far back as 1613, when 

 he was in his twentieth year (or at latest 

 in the year 1619), when he would have 

 been twenty - six. His first published 

 lines seem to have been produced on the 

 dates following 



