Being a _Facsimile_ Reprint of the First Edition published in 1653. With a Preface by RICHARD LE GALLIENNE. The "first edition" has been a favourite theme for the scorn of those who love it not. "The first edition--and the worst!" gibes a modern poet, and many are the true lovers of literature entirely insensitive to the accessory, historical or sentimental, associations of books. The present writer possesses a copy of one of Walton's Lives, that of Bishop Sanderson, with the author's donatory inscription to a friend upon the title-page. To keep this in his little library he has undergone willingly many privations, cheerfully faced hunger and cold rather than let it pass from his hand; yet,…
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