1593–1683
Izaak Walton — author of one of the most frequently reprinted books in the English language and a writer unusually beloved of his contemporaries — has left many examples of his handwriting, although no original manuscripts of his published works. The nearest thing to any surviving literary autograph manuscripts by him is a few draft notes for an unfinished life of John Hales planned by William Fulman (*
A total of five autograph letters by Walton are known to have survived and are given entries in CELM (*
Some two dozen other documents, including Walton's will, can currently be recorded as bearing a signature or other example of Walton's handwriting (see
Walton was evidently inclined to give inscribed presentation exempla of his various printed works to a wide circle of family and friends and a considerable number of these, together with his own annotated exempla, have been recorded (*
This list would be greatly extended if all printed exempla of Walton's writings bearing his autograph corrections were recorded. There are, for instance, other alleged annotated exempla of the second edition of his The Compleat Angler (London, 1655). One or more exempla allegedly annotated by Walton were offered, for instance, at Sotheby's, 27 January 1873 (Joseph Lilly sale, 6th day), lot 2050, to Hazlitt, and 30 March 1882 (Frederic Ouvry sale), lot 1459, to Ellis & W.
An exemplum of The Life of Mr. Richard Hooker (London, 1665) in the library of Walton's friend Dr Richard Allstree (Christ Church, Oxford, Allestree P. 4. 5) bears a contemporary inscription ffor Dor: Alestrye
, but, unlike Allstree's exempla of the Lives and Sanderson recorded in CELM (*with I. Walton's autograph corrections
were sold at Sotheby's, 19 June 1871 (Joseph Lilly sale, 17th day), lot 4940, to Pickering, and lot 4941 (with autograph of
), to Smith. What was alleged to be Thomas Tomlins 1683
Walton's copy with two full pages and two half pages of amendments to the text of this first edition, afterwards incorporated in other editions
was sold at Sotheby's on 30 November 1898, lot 580, and at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 3 May 1939 (John A. Spoor sale), lot 1113 (with facsimile example in the sale catalogue), and is now in the Robert H. Taylor Collection at Princeton. However, these notes are not in Walton's hand and there is no evidence of his ownership of the volume.
In addition to the numerous exempla of Walton's Lives (1670) bearing his presentation inscriptions (*
There are various exempla of The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln (London, 1678), without presentation inscriptions but containing Walton's autograph corrections or other annotations. They include exempla sold at Christie's, 21 October 1992 (John Sparrow sale), lot 289, to Rota; at Sotheby's, 20 December 1838 (Rev. H.S. Cotton sale), lot 186, to Nattali (perhaps the Cotton volume with a four-word autograph inscription, signed
sold at the Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 October 1946, lot 532); at Sotheby's, 8 July 1897, lot 561, to Pearson, and on 12 May 1947 (Shirley sale), lot 550, to Edwards; at the Anderson Galleries, New York, 15 March 1920 (H. Buxton Forman sale), lot 924; and one in A.R. Heath's sale catalogue No. 47 (1982), item 403.J. W.
While several inscribed exempla of Reliquiae Wottonianae, which was edited by Walton, are recorded in CELM (*Susanna Hopton her Book given by her unknown generous freind Mr. Isaac Walton
: i.e. by Canon Isaac Walton, not his father. This volume was sold at Sotheby's, 12 August 1854 (William Pickering sale, 12th day), lot 3731, to Skeffington.
During his long life Walton evidently possessed an extensive library, some volumes from which he seems to have presented to other people at various times, but at least part of which he bequeathed to his son, Canon Isaac Walton (1651-1719) and his daughter (Mrs Anne Hawkins) in 1683 (…I also give to her all my bookes at Winchester and Droxford…And…Docr. Halls Works which be now at Farnham. To my son Izaak I give all my books, (not yet given) at Farnham Castell…
). Canon Isaac Walton subsequently presented his books to Salisbury Cathedral, and an entry in the Salisbury Communars' Accounts for October 1716 to October 1719 shows that this was done in the year before his death. Among over a hundred of the younger Isaac Walton's books now in Salisbury Cathedral, some three dozen bear inscriptions or annotations denoting the previous ownership of his father: see Jonquil Bevan's account in Izaak Walton and Salisbury Cathedral Library (Salisbury, 1983). Clearly the books that remain at Salisbury represent only a very small portion of Walton's original library, which has been very widely scattered and volumes from which will no doubt continue to come to light in the saleroom and elsewhere.
Like his exempla of his own works, Walton's miscellaneous books can usually be identified by the presence of his signature (usually Iz: Wa:
, occasionally, in his earlier years, Izaak Walton
), and sometimes from his autograph annotations or even presentation inscriptions.
Lists of books allegedly bearing Walton's handwriting been printed in, notably, Walton's Lives: Matthew Kenrick by P.T. Dale, N&Q, 147 (16 August 1924), 120; ibid by W. Courthope Forman, N&Q, 147 (30 August 1924), 157; ibid by H.J.B. Clements, N&Q, 147 (30 August 1924), 157-8; (13 September 1924), 200; (27 September 1924), 230-1; in Jonquil Bevan, Izaak Walton and his Publisher, The Library, 5th Ser. 32 (1977), 344-59; in Jonquil Bevan, Some Books from Izaak Walton's Library, The Library, 6th Ser. 2 (September 1980) 259-63; in I.A. Shapiro, Donne and Walton items Forgeries, The Library, 6th Ser. 3 (1981), 232; in Jonquil Bevan and I.A. Shapiro, Donne and the Walton Forgeries: A Correspondence, The Library, 6th Ser. 4 (1982), 329-39; and see also Henry H. Gibbs, Izaak Walton, N&Q, 4th Ser. 12 (15 November 1873), 382-4.
Those examples given entries in CELM (
In the correspondence between Jonquil Bevan and I.A. Shapiro noted above, Shapiro warned about the existence of forged signatures and inscriptions, made in the nineteenth century at a time when Waltoniana was profitably in demand (his suspicions not altogether excluding even the nucleus of Walton's books at Salisbury in view of the fact that the Cathedral continued to acquire books of Walton association long after the death of Canon Isaac Walton). While the inscribed books at Salisbury prove to be genuine, Shapiro's caution about forgeries is salutary. The following books, in various locations, for instance, bear inscriptions that are undoubtedly forgeries or misidentified:
Iz: W: 1622) reproduced in G. Walter Steeves, Francis Bacon (London, 1910), p. 65.
signaturesof
J: Donneand
Izaak Walton. Bound with Lancelot Addison, A Modest Plea of the Clergy (London, 1677) (William Salt Library, Stafford, Strongroom Box 1). Facsimiles of the inscribed title-page in Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of John Donne, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 1932), facing p. 176, and in Jonquil Bevan, Some Books from Izaak Walton's Library, The Library, 6th Ser. 2 (1980), 259-63 (Plate I).
I Waltonis that of Canon Isaac Walton rather than the author.
To the Reader,
Izaak Walton given mee by docr Don, 1625. (Formerly in the library of Robert S Pirie. Christie's, 23 June 1993, lot 132).
Walton's name is found in various other contemporary documents without his actual signature appearing. For instance, he is mentioned several times between 26 February 1639/40 and 7 February 1643/4 in the Vestry minute books among the parish records of St Dunstan in the West (London Metropolitan Archives, P69/DUN2/B/001/MS03016/001, formerly Guildhall Library, MS 3016/1, pp. 208-9, 211-14, 216, 218-19, 221, 224-5, 228, 230-1, 237), and he is mentioned in a deed of settlement (citing a deed of 1645 with Walton's name) made on the marriage of Thomas Austen and Arabella Forsett on 23 September 1673 (London Metropolitan Archives, CLC/521/MS 01883MS 1883, formerly Guildhall Library, MS 1883). These and other records relating to Walton's life are mentioned in publications (cited above) by Jonquil Bevan, who also opines that the best current biography of Walton is A. M. Coon's unpublished dissertation The Life of Izaak Walton (Cornell University, 1938). Walton's son, Canon Isaac Walton, is similarly mentioned in records on occasions. A few books bearing his signature between 1710 and 1716 were sold at Sotheby's, 19 July 1869 (Sir Henry Ellis sale), lot 1550, to Heseltine.
An interesting document not mentioned by Bevan, now in the little Chamber in Farnham Castle
), dated 6 December 1684. The brief vellum scroll (measuring nearly 2 feet by 5 inches) mentions Walton's Books at Winchester, Farnham & Draxford
(valued at £20) and his Fishing Tackle and other Lumber
(at 10s), as well as assorted Apparrell
, cabinet, trunk, hangings, chairs, stools, fireshovel, tong, andirons, bellows, tables, chests, shelves, two watches, a seal, a Nagge
, clothes and money, besides the lease of Norrington Farm, Hampshire, of part of a house in Paternoster Row, and of property in Chancery Lane, London, the total amounting to £2,2206 12s 6d.
In her edition of The Compleat Angler 1653-1676 (Oxford, 1983), p. 20, Jonquil Bevan refers to the innumerable scrawls noting recipes and baits that are to be found in the waste leaves of many early copies of the book
and also to two manuscript digests
of the work. Otherwise, apart from a Facsimile Copy, in Manuscript, of the First Edition
of The Compleat Angler (
An unspecified autograph quotation from Walton, A good name is better then a pretius oyntment Iz: Wa
, is reproduced in facsimile in Nicolas, I, frontispiece.
Sixteen pages of notes by Sir John Hawkins (1719-89) for his edition of The Compleat Angler, c.1760, are at Harvard (MS Eng 924). Collections of Sir Henry Ellis for his edition of the work, c.1770-1855, are in the British Library (Add. MS 41313, ff. 1-73). Charles Lamb's exemplum of the 1772 edition is in the Rosenbach Museum and Library. Page proofs and a sheaf of notes for the second edition of Thomas Zouch's edition of Walton's Lives (York, 1807) are at Yale (Osb MSS File 16598). The manuscript, written on 68 quarto leaves, of an apparently unpublished play by Charles Dance called Izaak Walton, which was performed several times in 1839, was sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1933 (Alfred Denison sale), lot 232, to Sexton. And an album of Waltoniana, containing notes, press cuttings and other related nineteenth-century material about Walton, is at Yale (Osborn Collection, MS Vault Shelves Walton). In her edition of The Compleat Angler (1983, p. vi), Jonquil Bevan also cites Professor John Butt's profusely annotated copy of Zouch's edition of Walton's Lives
[1796].
Izaak Walton has also been the subject of a hunt for surviving relics
. Among these are the seal apparently given to him by John Donne, as well as Walton's watch (made by Daniel Quare, together with one made by Thomas Tompion owned by Thomas, Bishop Ken), items which descended through Walton's collateral descendants, the Merewether family, and which are now in Salisbury Cathedral; his supposed marriage chest with an inscription, recorded in Keynes (1929), p. 575, as being at Warwick Castle; and the leather fishing creel supposedly presented by Walton to J.D. Anderson in 1646 [curiously recalling the Walton collector J.L. Anderdon of the 1840s], recorded in Ernest G. Marriott, Izaak Walton 1593-1683 (London, 1987), p. 12, as belonging to the Flyfishers' Club in London. Like the personal relics
of John Bunyan, such objects are likely to bear witness perhaps more to a fashionable pursuit in the nineteenth century than to the life of Walton himself.
First published in The Compleat Angler (London, 1653).
Copy, on three pages of two sextodecimo leaves evidently extracted from a notebook.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635), pp. [397-9].
Adapted extracts.
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single italic hand, entitled Gospell Obseruations & Religius manifestations, 370 pages, in contemporary calf.
Entirely in the hand of Robert Overton (1608/9-1678/9), parliamentarian army officer, whose signature appears on a flyleaf. Prepared as a memorial and tribute to his wife, Ann Gardiner (d.1665), and written when in prison, either on Jersey or in the Tower of London.
Inscribed inside the front cover Saml Atkins Wykeham
and inside the rear cover 17 Feby 1879. Purchased this Book of Prescot Bookseller. Upper Arcade. Bristol...Edwd G. Doggett
.
This volume discussed extensively, with facsimile examples (of pp. 85-6, 151-2, 162, 166, 190-2), in David Norbrook, This blushinge tribute of a borrowed muse
: Robert Overton and his Overturning of the Poetic Canon, EMS, 4 (1993), 220-66.
First published in London, 1653.
Numerous extracts.
Recorded in The Compleat Angler 1653-1676, ed. Jonquil Bevan (Oxford, 1983), p. 20.
A series of extracts, entitled The Art of Angling Augmented, or Extractions out of several Authors concerning Fish and Fishing, etc. ... gathered out of Mr. Walton and others
, 37 duodecimo leaves (the first numbered 53).
Extracts, with a title-page: Mr. Isaac Walton's Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Mans Recreation
.
An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, relating to angling, 284 pages (lacking pp. 161-84), in quarter-calf marbled boards.
In several neat, small, chiefly italic hands, one on pp. 1-203 that of Nathaniel Bridges, of Magdalen College, Oxford, whose inscription on f. [iiir] is dated 1694
.
Bookplate of George Weare Braikenridge, Broomwell House. A flyleaf is inscribed by him, November 1834, The Book belonged to the late Dr. Nathl. Bridges Lecturer of St Mary Radcliffe & St Nicholas in the City of Bristol & purchased out of a private sale of his library at his decease.
Other names inscribed after p. 212 including William Trumbu[ll]
, Joseph Brampton 1691
, and Hen Sacheverell / Coll. Magd.
. A later bookplate inside the lower cover: Gift of Daniel B. Fearing of Newport, 1915
.
A Fac-simile Copy, in Manuscript, of the First Edition
of The Compleat Angler (1653).
Sotheby's, 20 December 1838 (Rev. H.S. Cotton sale), lot 158, to Rodd.
A MS digest
of the work.
Recorded in The Compleat Angler 1653-1676, ed. Jonquil Bevan (Oxford, 1983), p. 20.
Unfinished and unpublished.
Memoranda about John Hales, writ from Mr ffaringdons Copie
, partly autograph, partly in the hand of an amanuensis, headed The Authours Life
, on two folio leaves.
Recorded in The Poems of Henry King, ed. Margaret Crum (Oxford, 1965), p. 21.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers in various hands, collected by John Walker (1674-1747), Prebendary of Exeter, 502 leaves.
Autograph draft memoranda about John Hales (a continuation of
Edited and discussed in John Butt, Izaak Walton's Collections for Fulman's Life of John Hales, MLR, 29 (1934), 267-73. Facsimile page in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XXI, after p. xxi.
A quarto volume of collections in the hand of William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, 127 leaves.
See
First published in London, 1670.
Extracts, variously headed How to cure ye Comon People of contemning ye Clergy
, How to dye unto Sin
, and How to live unto God
, subscribed respectively Walton's life of Mr George Herbert. p. 310
, Id: pg. 390
, and Bl: 4. 6
.
A quarto composite commonplace book of extracts chiefly from religious works, in probably several hands, one predominating, ff. 115r-27r occupied by a sporadic journal for 1715-21 in later hands, 131 leaves (including blanks), in old half-calf.
Compiled by Dr Thomas Lewis (d.1746), of the Royal College of Physicians.
See
Autograph letter signed by Walton, to Mrs Dorothy Smith, from Worcester, 21 March 1661/2.
Edited in HMC 36, Ormonde NS III (1904), pp. 14-15. Facsimile in The Houghton Library 1942-1967 (1967), p. 54. Limited facsimile edition also edited as Good Mrs. Smith: A Letter from Izaak Walton ([Cambridge, Mass., 1948]).
Autograph letter signed, to Edward Ward, [from London], 26 November 1670.
Edited in [Anon], Unpublished Letter of Izaak Walton, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 20 (17 May 1856), 385; in Waltoniana (1878); in E. Marston, Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton (London, 1908), pp. 155-7; and in Keynes (1929), pp. 591-2.
Autograph letter signed by Walton, to Richard Marriot, concerning Walton's proposed Life of John Hales, 24 August 1673.
Edited in Waltoniana (1878); in Keynes (1929), pp. 592-3; and in John Butt, Izaak Walton's Collections for Fulman's Life of John Hales, MLR, 29 (1934), 267-73 (pp. 267-8).
A quarto volume of collections in the hand of William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, 127 leaves.
Autograph letter signed by Walton, to John Aubrey, a memorandum about Ben Jonson and others, 22 November 1680.
Edited in Waltoniana (1878); in Keynes (1929), pp. 603-4; and in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), II, 15-16. Aubrey's accompanying notes on Jonson (f. 108r) edited in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, I (Oxford, 1925), 181.
A folio composite autograph manuscript of the first part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 121 largely folio leaves, in vellum within modern boards.
Autograph letter signed by Walton, from Farnham Castle, 26 May 1683, subscribed to an autograph letter by George Morley, Bishop of Winchester, which Walton sent on to Wood.
A composite volume of letters sent to Anthony Wood, in various hands, i + 355 leaves.
Walton's autograph signature as witness to the will of Nicholas Hare of the Inner Temple, also witnessed by Walton's brother-in-law Thomas Grinsell, 19 December 1621.
This will was proved 7 January 1621/2: a probate copy PROB 11/139/1.
Recorded in Jonquil Bevan, Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler The Art of Recreation (Brighton, 1988), p. 7.
Walton's autograph signature in a General Register, recording his application for a licence to marry Rachel Floud, 27 December 1626.
Recorded in Henry H. Gibbs, Izaak Walton, N&Q, 4th Ser. 12 (15 November 1873), 382-4, and in E. Marston, Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton (London, 1908), pp. 101-2.
Walton's autograph signature as witness on an indenture whereby Robert Tichborne and Thomas Grinsell of London, executors of the late Dame Margaret Temple, by virtue of her will dated 12 May 1617, grant the Mayor and Burgesses of Stafford the right to dispose as they see fit of Dame Margaret's bequest (£30 interest at the rate of 6% or more if possible) to the poor of Stafford, the text entirely in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe
, 30 June 1635.
Recorded in The Compleat Angler 1653-1676, ed. Jonquil Bevan (Oxford, 1983), p. 3. Discussed, with facsimiles, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (Oxford, 1998), pp. 72-4.
Walton's autograph signature as a Vestryman in approval of the Churchwardens' accounts, 28 June 1641.
These accounts recorded in Nicolas, I, clix-clxi.
Churchwarden's account book for St Dunstan in the West, 1628-44.
Formerly Guildhall library MS 2968/3.
Autograph endorsement by Walton (Mr: Noells deide of halfhead ffirst of may. 1655
) on a conveyance by Walter Noell of property in Halfhead to Walton, 1 May 1655.
Autograph docketing (five lines) and endorsement by Walton (tytell to halfhed by mr milward
) on a letter written and signed by Robert Milward and addressed To his honor'd friend Mr Isaacke Walton to be left at Mr Maryotts a Stationers Shoppe in St Dunstan's Church yarde
, 14 May 1655.
Walton's autograph signature on an indenture for his sale of the Black Boy
, in a street between Temple Bar and Drury Lane, to Richard Startyn of St Mary Savoy in the Strand, 19 May 1655.
Extensive autograph endorsements by Walton, one of about eight lines signed apparently on 25 June 1655, another of three lines dated 25 August 1670, and with six additional autograph notes identifying other signatories, on a lease of property in Halfhead by Walter Noell to Thomas Whitgreave and Walter Worsewicks, 25 June 1655.
Walton's autograph endorsements (Major Sariant knowes him
[i.e. Corr. Swillivan], The ffirst deide of halfhed inrolde 1655. Inrold
, nouember 16°. 1655. doctor Benet: a mr of Chansery his hand to it
), on a four-part conveyance of property in Halfhead between Walter Noell, Robert Lloyd, Robert Roe and John Sargeant, and Walton, 16 November 1655.
Walton's autograph endorsement (This is a Writing Concerning halfhead. 28 Novr 1655
) on a recovery of property in Halfhead by John Sargeant and William Smith from Robert Lloyd and Robert Roe, 28 November 1655.
Walton's autograph ignature as a witness to an indenture relating to a sale by him, Mary Fitzwilliams, Walter Heveningham and Ralph Smythe of property in Blymhill, Brynton and Creswell, Staffordshire, 2 December 1658.
Recorded (as communicated by Thomas B. Chinn, of Lichfield, Esq.
) in Nicolas, I, clxiii-clxiv.
Walton's autograph signature as a witness to an indenture between Walter Fowler of St Thomas, Staffordshire, and Edward Parkshouse of Nether Swarnall, Staffordshire, and John Asteley of Worcester, for the sale of land in Bradley, Staffordshire, 5 October 1659.
Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 429 (1929), item 195.
Walton's autograph signature as a witness to a bond and obligation by Walter Fowler, Robert Pickin and Brian Lane of Staffordshire, for payment of £1,000 to John Gough of Bushbury, 25 October 1659.
Later owned by E.M. Dring. Sotheby's, 18 July 1991, lot 165, to Quaritch, with a facsimile of the signatures in the sale catalogue.
Walton's autograph endorsement (mr Walter Noell.3o. Aprill. — 1660 — 1660
) on a conveyance of property in Halfhead by Walter Noell to Walton, 3 April 1660.
Signature on an indenture also signed by Walter Noell, a tenancy agreement with William Parker and Brian Lane concerning property in Halfhead, 27 May 1660.
Walton's autograph endorsement (A Writing Concerning Halfhed
) on a recovery of property in Halfhead by Brian Lane and Laurence Gaywood from William Parker, 28 November 1660.
Autograph document (also incorporating Walton's signature in the text), a disclaimer by John Meison of Halfhead and Walter Noell of Hilcott of the right to use the backyard of Meison's house (now occupied by Richard Mitten) as a thoroughfare, this right having been questioned by Walton, recent purchaser of the house and yard in question, signed by Walter Noell and witnessed by William Hawkins and Brian Lane, [1660].
Later owned by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), American industrialist, banker and book collector. American Art Association, New York, sale catalogue, 11 March 1946 (Perry sale), lot 540, with a facsimile in the catalogue.
Walton's autograph endorsements (one of three lines, others identifying the marks
of the signatories Walter Bowring and James Worthington, each of them mr Waltons man
) on a conveyance of property in Halfhead by Walter Noell to Walton in accordance with the indenture of 3 April 1660, 8 May 1661.
Autograph affidavit signed by Walton, about land in Halfhead, 23 October 1676.
Edited in Keynes (1929), p. 601. Facsimile in E. Marston, Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton (London, 1908), p. 116.
Walton's autograph signature as witness, on an assignment of a judgment debt by Anne Hannah King (daughter-in-law of Henry King, Bishop of Chichester) and Mr Butler to Thomas Lee, 3 May 1677.
Walton's autograph endorsement (three lines, referring to Mr Noell
) on a mutilated leaf used as a wrapper and later endorsed, on 5 November 1694, by Canon Isaac Walton, [undated].
Walton's autograph last Will and testament, begun 9 August and finished and signed before witnesses on 24 October 1683, proved 4 February 1683/4.
Edited (with errors) in Nicolas, I, ciii-cviii. Reprinted in Keynes (1929), pp. 605-9. Edited from the original in Ernest G. Marriott, Izaak Walton 1593-1683 (London, 1987), pp. 17-20. Unfolding facsimile in The Compleat Angler, ed. George A. B. Dewar, 2 vols (London, 1902), after p. xliv.
A registered copy of Walton's last will and testament, 24 October 1683, proved 4 February 1683/4.
A detached autograph inscription by Walton, ffor Mada[m] Jed Maynard, my very good cozen. I:W.
.
Mounted as part of a design by Thomas Gosden for the title-page of an edition of The Compleat Angler — accompanied by a printed proof impression of this design and a detached signature of Charles Cotton (above its facsimile).
Formerly MS Osborn Vault Shelves Walton.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for [Anthony] Farindon.
Facsimile of the inscription in Sotheran's sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa (1907), item 438, facing p. 88.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for the Honorable Lady Jane Leigh
.
Recorded in N &Q, 13 September 1924, p. 200, as being in the Henry Jadis sale at Sotheby's, 3 March 1828, but there is no mention of it in the sale catalogue.
An exemplum bearing on three of the four flyleaves notes in the handwriting of the author, two of them bearing date of 1656
.
Anderson Auction Company, New York, 25 February 1909 (H.W. Poor sale, Part IV), lot 944.
An exemplum with Walton's autograph notes.
Sotheby's, 30 March 1882, lot 1459.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for his friend Honest Will Iles
.
Sotheby's New York, 1 May 1990 (H. Bradley Martin sale), lot 3300, with facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mrs Anne King.
Sotheby's, 20 December 1838 (Rev. H.S. Cotton sale), lot 156, to Rodd. Sotheby's, 9 May 1898 (Earl of Ashburnham sale, 6th day), lot 3931, to Nattali.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Dr Richard Allstree.
Recorded in W.G. Hiscock, A Christ Church Miscellany (Oxford, 1946), p. 10.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for his godson Birch, with a few autograph corrections to the printed text.
Facsimiles of the inscription (the name sometimes mistranscribed as Vivre
or Vivere
) in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 16 July 1984, lot 19, and in Rodolphe L. Coigney, Izaak Walton: A New Bibliography 1653-1987 (New York, 1989), facing p. 395 (recorded p. 387).
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for John Fitzwilliam.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mrs Anne King.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton For Mr John…I.W.
, with a few autograph corrections to the printed text.
Recorded in Rodolphe L. Coigney, Izaak Walton: A New Bibliography 1653-1987 (New York, 1989), p. 387.
An exemplum inscribed by Walton for mr [? ]ley
.
Anderson Auction Company, New York, 19 November 1908 (H.W. Poor sale, Part I), lot 1018, with an unclear facsimile of the inscribed title-page in the sale catalogue.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for the Earl of Clarendon.
Sotheran's sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa (1907), item 438, with a facsimile of the inscription facing p. 88.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for his Coz[en] Lewin
.
Puttick & Simpson's, 28 January 1891, lot 272, to Sotheran.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for John Lloyde.
Sotheby's, 14 March 1956 (J.W. Hely-Hutchinson sale), Lot 626B, to Maggs. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 937 (Autumn 1971), item 146, with a facsimile of the inscribed title-page as Plate 11. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 103, item 49.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for John Millington.
Sotheby's, 30 January 1914 (John Pearson sale), lot 574, to Maggs.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mr More.
Sotheby's, 9 April 1902 (Lt.-Col. Edward George Hibbert sale), lot 885, to Quaritch.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for [John Pearson], Bishop of Chester.
T. Kerslake, Bristol, sale catalogue Second Part Scarce and Curious Books Printed and Manuscript
, [c.1820s-40s], item 3150. Francis Edwards's sale catalogue No. 700 (1950), item 495.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for John Perrin.
Maggs's sale catalogue No. 937 (Autumn 1971), item 147.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Bishop Spratt.
Sotheby's, 14 February 1917 (Col. W.F. Prideaux sale, 12th day), lot 3685, to Edwards. Sotheby's, 9 February 1982, lot 362, unsold.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mr [John] Swynfen.
Sotheby's, 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale, 10th day), lot 3076, to Stevens.
Recorded in Nicolas, I, xxiv.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for his cozen Tomlins
.
Sotheran's sale catalogue No. 995 (March 1986), item 114.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Dr [Charles] Trumbull.
Hodgson's, 19 February 1920, lot 576. Anderson Galleries, New York, 5 March 1923, lot 503 (the recipient erroneously identified as Sir William Trumbull, Secretary of State).
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for his cozen Williams
.
Sotheby's, 30 November 1898 (Edward Snow sale), lot 581, to Maurice.
An exemplum with Walton's autograph corrections.
An exemplum with Walton's autograph corrections.
An exemplum with Walton's autograph corrections.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mr Comerford.
Sotheby's, 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 1145. Sotheby's, 23 February 1870 (Rev. Thomas Corser sale, 4th day), lot 836, to Lilly.
An exemplum inscribed in an unidentified hand Unus ex libris Edmi Pytt. ex Dono Isaaci Walto[n]
.
Sotheby's, 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 1146. Sotheran's sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa (1907), item 438.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Waller for his Sister Beacham
.
Sotheby's. 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 2012. Hodgson's, 31 March 1915, lot 85, to Manning.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Dr Philip King.
Christie's, 15 April 1981, Lot 158, to Burgess, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Sotheran's catalogue No. 995 (March 1986), item 113.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Seth Ward, Bishop of Exeter, dated by Ward January 1664/5.
Sotheby's. 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 2013. Sotheby's, 14 March 1956 (J.W. Hely-Hutchinson sale), lot 626A, to Keinbusch.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Dr Warmestry, Dean of Worcester.
Puttick & Simpson's, 7 February 1895, 2nd day, lot 464, to Pickering.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Sir Richard Chaworth.
An exemplum of an unspecified edition of the Lives inscribed by Walton ffor my Cozen Roe
.
Owned in 1808 by L.S. Hawkins, Esq.
Facsimile of the inscription in The Complete Angler, ed. Sir John Hawkins (London, 1808), frontispiece.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Anthony Wood, with Wood's note that the last four lives were given to him by the author on St James's day [26 July] 1670.
Complete facsimile published by the Scolar Press (Menston, 1969).
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for [John Fell], Bishop of Oxford.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Dr Richard Allstree.
Recorded in W.G. Hiscock, A Christ Church Miscellany (Oxford, 1946), p. 10.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Waller for Mr Fitch, also with a cancelled inscription by Walton to Dr [Michael] Honeywood, Dean of Lincoln.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for [Humphrey Henchman], Bishop of London.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mr Danvers.
A printed exemplum signed by Walton (Iz. Wa
) and with his autograph corrections.
Ownership signature of J. Greene on the title-page and bookplate of Henry Andrews Ingraham. Sotheby's, 13 December 1990, lot 13.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mrs Austen.
Later in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for John Barlow.
Sotheby's, 18 June 1897 (H. Spencer Smith sale), lot 656, to Pickering. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 October 1946, lot 529.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Richard Bailie.
Pickering & Chatto's sale catalogue for 1899, item 3402.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for his Sister Ms Mar[tha]. Beacham
.
Sotheby's, 12 August 1854 (William Pickering sale, 12th day), lot 3659, to Streaker. NB. Lot 3664 in this sale (sold to Lilly) was an exemplum of the fourth edition (1675) inscribed Martha Beacham her Book
.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for his brother [John] Chalkhill
.
Sotheby's, 20 December 1838 (Rev. H. S. Cotton sale), lot 183, to Jote.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mr [John] Fitzwilliam, [Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford].
Sotheby's, 18 July 1916, lot 340, to Jenkins.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mr Galbin.
Recorded in N&Q, 27 September 1924, p. 230, as having been sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1921, but there is no mention of it in the sale catalogue.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Annie Hawkins (Walton's sister). two inscriptions deleted.
Sotheby's, 8 November 1916, lot 315, to Maggs. American Art Association, New York, 7 November 1934, lot 342.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Dr [Michael] Honeywood, Dean of Lincoln.
Sotheby's, 18 June 1904 (Isham sale), lot 348, to Edwards.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Richard Morley.
Sotheby's, 14 December 1981, lot 150, to Quaritch, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mr Mowbray.
Francis Edwards's sale catalogue No. 700 (1950), item 494.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mrs Lutie [or Julia] Norton.
Sotheby's, 12 August 1854 (William Pickering sale, 12th day), lot 3658, to Stevens. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 October 1946, lot 530.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mrs. Oliver Whitby.
Quaritch's sale Catalogue of English Literature
(August-November 1884), item 23235.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for my Oncle Mr. John R.
Sotheby's, 12 August 1854 (William Pickering sale, 12th day), lot 3655, to Brooks.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Sir John Robinson.
Sotheby's, 23 March 1907 (William C. Van Antwerp sale), lot 236, to Thomas.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Lady Margaret, Countess of Salisbury.
Sotheby's, 27 June 1912, lot 409, to Sabin. American Art Association, New York, 4 December 1935, lot 427, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for John Swynfen.
Pickering & Chatto, A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books
, [c.1910?], p. 575, item 392a.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Lady Witgreave.
Christie's, New York, 18 November 1988 (John F. Fleming sale), lot 356.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mr Roff.
Christie's, 3 March 2004 (Halsted B. Vander Poel sale), lot 36.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Walter, Lord Aston of Tixall, with a note by Aston dated 14 June 1671.
Sotheby's, 7 November 1899 (Tixall sale), lot 712, to Sabin. Recorded in Nicolas, I, lxxvi-lxxvii.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mrs Sarah Duffield.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Lady Ardglass.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Charles Beaumont.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for William Chetwynd.
Peter Murray Hill's sale catalogue No. 72 (1960), item 51, with an illustration of a page bearing Walton's impression of Donne's seal.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for John Lillie, the inscription deleted.
Later in the Oxford Library of John Sparrow (1906-1992), literary scholar and book collector. Christie's, 21 October 1992, lot 289, to Rota.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mrs Abraham Hublond.
Later in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.
An exemplum with Walton's presentation unscription to Lady Bowles
.
Recorded in Marvin Spevack, The Library at Hughenden Manor, The Book Collector, 59/4 (Winter 2010), p. 565.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mr Baynes.
Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 696 (1951), item 320.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mr Garrard.
Sotheby's, 12 August 1854 (William Pickering sale, 12th day), lot 3663, to Toovey.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mr Holman.
Pickering & Chatto's sale catalogue for 1900, item 2093.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Matthew Kenrick (Walton's first wife's cousin), dated by Kenrick 7 August 1675.
Sotheby's, 20 July 1864 (George Daniel sale), lot 1732, to Lilly. Sotheby's, 22 June 1920 (Huth sale, Part IX), lot 7901, to Francis Edwards.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Jack Markham.
Sotheran's sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa (1907), item 441. Later in the library of John Buxton.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Lord Maynard.
Puttick & Simpson's, 11 December 1895 (W. Pennant sale), lot 186, to Pickering.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mrs Neideham (with copy of a letter from Donne written on fly-leaf
).
Sotheby's, 8 June 1894, lot 231, to Pickering.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Sir Joseph Sheldon (a small portion of the inscription cut off).
Sotheby's, 3 May 1895 (Christopher Framingham sale), lot 15, to Pickering. Sotheby's, 5 June 1961 (Apsley Cherry-Garrard sale), lot 274, to Sawyer.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mr Spedwall, Binder
.
Christie's, 16 March 1888 (Earl of Aylesford sale), lot 1771.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for his Cozen
Mrs Williams.
Sotheby's, 29-30 February 1932 (library of Lord Hillingdon, of Wakefield Lodge, Potterspury, Northamptonshire), lot 446, to Joseph, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.
An exemplum allegedly with an autograph inscription of Walton, and the corrections of the errata, in his handwriting
.
Sotheby's, 11 June 1894 (Birket Foster sale), lot 20, to Pearson.
An exemplum with a three-word autograph inscription (unsigned)
.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 October 1946, lot 531.
An exemplum with the contemporary inscription Ex libris Elizabeth Chas…ex Dono Author
.
Sotheran's sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa (1907), item 442.
Archbishop Sancroft's exemplum, with some autograph corrections by Walton.
Recorded in Nicolas, I, c.
An exempum signed Izaak Walton
on the title-page.
Probably the Alfred Denison exemplum sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1933, lot 231.
Facsimile of the title-page in Jonquil Bevan, Some Books from Izaak Walton's Library, The Library, 6th Ser. 2 (1980), 259-63 (Plate II).
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mrs Wallop, dated from Farnham Castle, 19 December 1678.
Facsimiles of the inscription in Nicolas, I, xcix; in Keynes (1929), pp. 602-3; and in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 37.
Walton's exemplum.
John Pearson's sale catalogue 200 Books from the Libraries of …Book-collectors [undated, but before 1914], item 41.
Walton's exemplum.
Exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton
on flyleaf; also signed in 1674 by Canon Isaac Walton.
Exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton
on title-page.
Walton's exemplum with his name on the title-page and his son's autograph on the fly-leaf. The latter bears the date of 1683-4
.
Anderson Galleries, New York, 10 November 1919 (Samuel P. Avery sale), lot 57.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton
on the title-page.
Bound with other printed works, including theological works by William Forde, Theophilus Higgons, Pierre Du Moulin the Elder, John Lawrence, Robert Harris, Anthony Cade, John Rawlinson, George Meriton, and Samuel Buggs, 1607-25 [STC 11176, 13456, 7319, 15325, 12840?, 4329, 20773a, 17838, and 402], which bear no independent evidence of Walton's ownership but for the initials I. W.
blind-stamped on the cover.
Walton's exemplum.
Recorded in Moelwyn I. Williams, A Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (London, 1985), p. 183b.
See
An exemplum with Walton's autograph memoranda on family births and deaths, including his epitaph on his wife Ann, dated from 22 August 1640 to 20 April 1662.
The memoranda edited in Keynes (1929), pp. 583-4. Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXXVII, and in Facsimiles of Royal, Historical and Literary Autographs in the British Museum (1899), No. 97.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton
on the title-page; also signed by Canon Isaac Walton.
An exemplum inscribed on the front pastedown Izaak: Walton given mee by my very good ffrend mar Henry ffeild July 29 1634
; also signed in 1674 by Canon Isaac Walton.
An exemplum inscribed ffor my dere Cozen Mirs Sarah Tomlins. Iz. Wa. To be left at Cozen Lloydes, to be Convayede by the next opertunity
.
Sotheby's, 20 October 1959, lot 44, to Sawyer, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Sawyer's sale catalogue No. 261 (April 1962), item 205, with a facsimile.
Walton's exemplum; also signed in 1683/4 by Canon Isaac Walton.
Sotheby's, 14 March 1956 (J.W. Hely-Hutchinson sale), lot 626C, to Keinbusch.
Walton's exemplum.
Sotheby's, 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale, 3rd day), lot 772, to Bumstead.
An exemplum inscribed on the verso of the half-title Izaak Walton Price — 4s. 6 — nour. 17°: 1652
; also signed by Canon Isaac Walton.
Walton's exemplum.
Sotheby's, 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale, 3rd day), lot 784, to Tupling.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walt[on]
on the title-page.
Bound with five other printed religious pamphlets of 1605-25, including works by William Barlow, Sir Edward Hoby, Francis Rogers, and Henry Mason (STC 21177; 13539; 1457; 17602), both covers blindstamped with the initials I W
.
A fragment, comprising the title-page and dedication leaf only, inscribed Izaak Walton
on the title-page.
Bound with other printed works, including theological works by William Forde, Theophilus Higgons, Pierre Du Moulin the Elder, John Lawrence, Robert Harris, Anthony Cade, John Rawlinson, George Meriton, and Samuel Buggs, 1607-25 (STC 11176, 13456, 7319, 15325, 12840?, 4329, 20773a, 17838, and 4022), which bear no independent evidence of Walton's ownership but for the initials I. W
blind-stamped on the cover.
Sotheby's sale catalogue, 10 July 1986, lot 31, with a facsimile of the signature in the sale catalogue.
An exemplum inscribed by Walton Izaak Walton, given me by Mr. Cotton. August 30, 1681
and with Walton's copious corrections or emendations (notably on pp. 26, 37, 40-1, 48-9, 63, and 66).
Sotheby's, 20 December 1838 (the Rev. H.S. Cotton sale), lot 72, to Bagster. According to a 19th-century note in an exemplum of this edition in Derby Central Library (4810), Walton's exemplum came from the library of J.C. Grove Esq. sold at Leighs 1794
: i.e. Leigh & Sotheby's, 10 February 1794 (library of William Chafin Grove, of Zeals, Wiltshire), lot 1354, to [Richard] Heber.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton
on the title-page.
Bound with other printed pamphlets, including works by Christopher Dow (with initials of
), William Barlow, and Dr John Gauden, 1637-62 (STC 7090, 1459, and Wing G352), which otherwise apparently bear no independent evidence of Walton's ownership.I.W.
(probably Walton's son) on title
Pickering's catalogue for 1900, item 2107.
An exemplum inscribed on the title-page Izaak Walton .1682.
; also signed by Canon Isaac Walton.
An exemplum inscribed on the title-page Liber Izaak Wallton
; also signed in 1674 by Canon Isaac Walton.
Walton's copy with his handwriting on the title and interlineations
, this work later incorporated as an appendix to his Life of Hooker.
Christie's, 19 April 1967, lot 32, to Pickering & Chatto.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton 1654
, with various autograph annotations, including an early draft of Walton's dedication to George Morley, Bishop of Winchester, of his The Life of Dr. Sanderson (1678).
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walto[n] giuen by the Author may .21°. 167[ ]
.
Bound with five printed pamphlets by Daniel Whitby, Ezerel Tonge [= Thomas Morton], Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, William Sherlock, and one other, 1679-87 (Wing W1739, M2839, B839-41, S3285 and unidentified), most of which are signed by Canon Isaac Walton.
Walton's exemplum.
Walton's exemplum, signed and annotated by him.
Peter Murray Hill's sale catalogue No. 72 (1960), item 47, with a facsimile of a page with one of Walton's autograph annotations. J.C. Lynn Angling collection.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton
on the second flyleaf and Izaak: Walton
on the title-page, with numerous autograph corrections in the text (see esp. pp. 25, 42, 47, 51, 55, 60, 69, 134, 206, and possibly the pointing hands on pp. 48, 93, 96, 109); also signed by Canon Isaac Walton in 1683/4
.
Walton's autograph annotations discussed in J. E. Butt, Walton's Copy of Donne's Letters (1651), RES, 8 (1932), 72-4.
An exemplum, with a note by J.G. Heckscher, This is supposed to have been Izaak Walton's copy
.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 April 1941 (A. Edwaed Newton sale), lot 566.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton. Giuen me by mr Marryot the 7°. of nouember 1650
and with autograph corrections in the printed text.
Sotheby's, 15 February 1932, lot 56, and 17 July 1933, lot 228, with facsimiles of the inscription in both sale catalogues.
Walton's exemplum.
A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 277.
An exemplum signed by Walton on the title-page.
Facsimile of the inscribed title-page in Robert H. Taylor Collection, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 38 (1977), Plate 8, after p. 96.
Walton's exemplum.
Bound with Donne's Deaths Duell (London, 1633) and also with five other Sermons by Donne, 1622-6, which bear no independent evidence of Walton's ownership.
Exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton
(blotched) on the title-page.
NB. Walton bequeathed one volume of Donne's sermons to Dr Hawkins.
An exemplum with Walton's autograph inscription to his aunt
Mrs Susanna Cranmer.
Later in the library of Robert Borthwick Adam (1863-1940), American book collector. Incorporated in the library of Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles): Hyde Collection, Life 2.5.363.
Recorded in The R.B. Adam Library, 3 vols (London & New York, 1929), with a facsimile of the inscription in vol. III, after p. 252.
Exemplum inscribed on the title-page Izaak: Walton price — 6d —
.
Bound with other printed works including theological works by William Forde, Theophilus Higgons, Pierre Du Moulin the Elder, John Lawrence, Robert Harris, Anthony Cade, John Rawlinson, George Meriton, and Samuel Buggs, 1607-25 (STC 11176, 13456, 7319, 15325, 12840?, 4329, 20773a, 17838, and 4022), which bear no independent evidence of Walton's ownership but for the initials I. W
blind-stamped on the cover.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton, given me by the Author, January 7th, 16—
.
Bound with other printed pamphlets, including works by Christopher Dow (with initials of
), William Barlow, and Dr John Gauden, 1637-62 (STC 7090, 1459, and Wing G352), which otherwise apparently bear no independent evidence of Walton's ownership.I.W.
(probably Walton's son) on title
Pickering's sale catalogue for 1900, item 2107.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton
on the title-page and, on the verso of the first flyleaf, some twenty-nine lines of autograph notes used for his The Life of John Donne.
The notes edited (with errors) in Nicolas, I, clv-clvi, and in Keynes (1929), pp. 579-80.
A printed exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton, given me by my worthy friend, the author…1657, and by me to Mr. Derbyshire, 1682
.
NB. in his Will Walton stated, I give to Mr. Darbishire the Sermons of Mr. Antony Faringdon, or of dor. Sanderson, which my executor thinks fit
.
A printed exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton. giuen to me by Mr Marryot. may. 9°. 1663
, also with a note (perhaps by Samuel Conant) And given to me by Mr Isaac Walton not long before his death: & sent to me fro his son soone after his death
.
A printed exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton
; also with a note The legacy of Mr. I. walton, 1683/84
.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton July 3°. 1682. giuen me, by the author
.
Sotheby's, 20 March 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 1399.
Facsimile of the inscription in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 45.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton
on the title-page.
Walton's exemplum.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton
on the title-page, ex Æde Christi Oxo
added in another hand to resignify Canon Isaac Walton, the date 1669
also present.
Bound with an exemplum of Thomas Godwin, Romanae Historiae Anthologia, 3rd edition (Oxford, 1620), heavily annotated in another hand.
This volume came to Salisbury Cathedral later than 1816.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton. given me by Mr [Robert] paulet [publisher]. Feb. 13° 1673
.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak. Walton
on a flyleaf, Ten Sermons.
at the top of the title-page, and numerous small autograph corrections in the text incorporating changes as listed on the errata
leaf on sig. A4v.
An exemplum signed Izaak Walton
and also by Canon Isaac Walton.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4 March 1946, lot 272.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton
on the title-page.
An exemplum inscribed on the title-page Izaak Walton Giuen me may 28: 1659 by mr: Rich Marryot
; also signed by Canon Isaac Walton.
Walton's exemplum.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton
on a flyleaf, and Izaak: Walton
on the first decorative title-page.
Walton's exemplum.
Sotheby's, 20 November 1899 (Lord Rendlesham sale), lot 1461, to Pearson.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton
on the title-page.
An exemplum inscribed Solus Deus ptector Meus W., apparently in the handwriting of Izaak Walton
.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 October 1946, lot 525.
An exemplum signed Izaak Walton
on the title-page.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton
on a flyleaf; also signed in 1674 by Canon Isaac Walton.
Recorded [by Dean Arthur M. Coon], with a facsimile of the signature, in Seventeenth-Century News, 6 (1948), p. 5.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton. giuen by Mr Marryot. Janur 1679
.
Sotheby's, 17 July 1933 (Alfred Denison sale), lot 228, to Dobell, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Peter Murray Hill's sale catalogue No. 72 (1960), item 48.
See
An exemplum signed Izak Wallton
; also signed by Canon Isaac Walton.
Phillip J. Pirages's sale catalogues No. 13 (1988), item 318, and No. 17 (July 1990), item 316.
An exemplum inscribed on the title-page Izaak: walton July: 5: 1621
.
An exemplum inscribed on a flyleaf Izaak Walton price: 5s
.
Walton's exemplum.
An exemplum inscribed Izak: Walton — 1620
on the title-page; also inscribed on a flyleaf by Canon Isaac Walton I: Walton ex Æde Xti Oxon
.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton
on the title-page, and with an autograph correction on p. 16.
This tract bound with six other printed pamphlets by James I, Sir Edward Lake, Gilbert Burnet (4), and the anonymous The Jesuites Intrigues, 1616-89 (STC 14368; Wing L188, J717, B5869, B5873 or B5876, B5842), one of which, Lake's Memoranda: touching the Oath Ex Officio (London, 1662) signed by Canon Isaac Walton.
This volume was donated to Salisbury Cathedral in 1837 by Herbert Hawes, a collateral descendant of Walton.
Walton's exemplum.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton
on the title-page.
A printed exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton, June 25°, 1658
and with substantial autograph annotations about Sanderson.
Bound with Sanderson'sTwenty Sermons (London, 1656).
Peter Murray Hill's sale catalogue No. 72 (1960), item 50, with facsimile examples of Walton's annotations. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 643 (1937), item 1592, with a facsimile example of the annotations.
One annotation edited in Nicolas, I, xcv-xcvi, and in Keynes (1929), p. 587. [NB. the Sermons…of dor. Sanderson
are mentioned in Walton's will.]
Walton's signature on a detached leaf purporting to come from an edition of Sanderson's sermons.
A file of miscellaneous autograph signatures.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton given me by Mr John King Septer. 12°. 1669
.
A printed exemplum inscribed on the title-page Izaak Walton
.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton
on the title-page, an autograph couplet Off this blest man, let this Just praise be giuen: / Heauen was in him, before he was in Heauen
at the top of the frontispiece.
NB. Walton bequeathed two other books by Sibbes: to my son Izaak I give Docr Sibbs his Soules Conflict, and to my doughter his Brewsed Reide
.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton
on the title-page as also his autograph couplet of this blest man let this Just praise be giuen,/heauen, was in him, before he was in heauen
.
The autograph couplet here edited in Waltoniana (1878) and in Keynes (1929), p. 584.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton 1682
on the title-page.
A printed exemplum, the work with a preface by I.W.
, attributed to Walton, with Walton's autograph signature Izaak Walton
on the title-page and on a flyleaf.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak: Walton given me by my honored and Reverend friend, my lord the: Bishop of Salisbury who wrote the authors life
.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 14 October 1946, lot 527, with a facsimile of the inscription as frontispiece in the sale catalogue.
Walton's exemplum.
Formerly in the Pleadwell Collection, Honolulu, Hawaii.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton
on a flyleaf.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton, Aprill 1681
.
Sotheby's, 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 3417. Sotheran's sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa (1907), item 583.
An exemplum with the early signature Izaak Walton
on the title-page.
Bound with five other religious pamphlets of 1605-25, including works by William Barlow, Sir Edward Hoby, Francis Rogers, and Henry Mason (STC 21177; 13539; 1457; 17602), both covers blindstamped with the initials I W
.
An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walton. giuen me June. 28. by the Author mr peter Welch
; also signed by Canon Isaac Walton in 1683/4.
American Art Association, 26 January 1922, lot 36, with a reduced facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.
An exemplum inscribed I.W. 1627 pr. 10s
.
Sotheby's, 28 June 1858 (Philip Bliss sale), lot 4796. Willis & Sotheran's sale catalogue for 1859, item 9283. Puttick & Simpson's, 23 November 1868, lot 1467, to Westell.
An exemplum inscribed by Walton To my most worthy and Honord ffrend mrs. digbie…
.
Sotheby's, 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 3729, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Sotheran's sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa (1907), item 438, with a facsimile of the inscription facing p. 88.
An exemplum inscribed by Walton for his cozen
Francis Hollinshed(?).
An exemplum inscribed by Walton for Dr Thomas Gumble (d.1676), Prebendary of Worcester, this inscription deleted and the volume given instead to Canon Isaac Walton who inscribed it on 8 August 1673.
Sotheby's, 16 June 1964, lot 672, to Maggs.
An exemplum inscribed by Walton ffor my dafter [Anne] Hawkins; Iz. Wa.
.
Sotheby's, 5 March 1934, lot 18, to Maggs. Sotheby's, 7 March 1853 (Dawson Turner sale), lot 3102. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 1063 (1985), item 535. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1165, item 180, with a facsimile of the inscribed frontispiece.
An exemplum inscribed by Walton For Honest Will. Iles
.
Maggs's sale catalogue No. 505 (1928), item 2424.
An exemplum inscribed Jasp. Nedham. Sent me by Mr. Iz. Walton. May 10. 1672
.
Quaritch's sale catalogue English Books before 1701 (October 1983), item 42.
