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 161 3, 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 — 



