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 (*WtI 6, *WtI 7). Otherwise, Walton is represented here by a handful of letters, by some legal and miscellaneous documents written or signed by him, and by a significant number of printed books bearing his autograph signatures, inscriptions, corrections or annotations.
A total of five autograph letters by Walton are known to have survived and are given entries in CELM (*WtI 9-13).
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 WtI 14-38 passim). Like most of the letters, a number of these documents were listed by I.A. Shapiro in correspondence in The Library, 6th Ser. 4 (1982), 332-3. The largest collection of Walton's documents, in the custody of Stafford Borough Council, was originally left with Messrs John Mottram Ltd, and a typescript calendar prepared in 1936 by Miss Garbett is in the William Salt Library, Stafford. This was recorded in Jonquil Bevan, Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler: The Art of Recreation (Brighton, 1988), p. 32, n. 48.
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 (*WtI 39-128).
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 (*WtI 46, *WtI 77), it bears no trace of Walton's own hand. Yet other exempla of this edition allegedly 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 (*WtI 75-103), various other exempla have been recorded as bearing Walton's signature or corrections. They include (possibly to be identified with certain of those already recorded here) exempla offered at various times by Sotheby's, Quaritch, Francis Edwards and Blackwell. These include those sold at Sotheby's, 7 September 1848 (Rev. H.S. Cotton sale), lot 52, to Smith; 18 July 1916, lot 339, to Spencer; and 18 December 1985, lot 48, to Burden; one sold by the American Art Association, New York, 15 March 1920 (H. Buxton Forman sale), lot 923; another sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 7 May 1945, ot 501; and yet another, with an unspecified autograph presentation inscription, sold at Sotheby's, 14 February 1917 (Col. W. F. Prideaux sale, 12th day), lot 3682, to Tregaskis.
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 (*WtI 210-214), there is also an exemplum of the third edition (London, 1672) bearing the inscription 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 (WtI 129-214), including many volumes whose present whereabouts is unknown, reflect current information about volumes alleged to have been owned or used by Walton. Since it is not possible to verify all attributions these entries must remain provisional. By the same token, it is likely that other books inscribed or annotated by Walton will come to light in due course.
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 National Archives, Kew (PROB 4/8265), is the postmortem inventory of Walton's goods and chattels (those evidently left in his 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 (WtI 5) there is little to suggest that much of Walton's work was ever copied in manuscript.
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).
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635), pp. [397-9].
Adapted extracts.
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.
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
.
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
.
Fac-simile Copy, in Manuscript, of the First Editionof The Compleat Angler (1653).
Sotheby's, 20 December 1838 (Rev. H.S. Cotton sale), lot 158, to Rodd.
digestof 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.
Autograph draft memoranda about John Hales (a continuation of WtI 11), written for William Fulman for his projected biography of Hales, on both sides of a folio leaf, 20 October 1673.
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.
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
.
Compiled by Dr Thomas Lewis (d.1746), of the Royal College of Physicians.
See WtI 70-74.
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]).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Formerly Guildhall library MS 2968/3.
Mr: Noells deide of halfhead ffirst of may. 1655) on a conveyance by Walter Noell of property in Halfhead to Walton, 1 May 1655.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Recorded (as communicated by Thomas B. Chinn, of Lichfield, Esq.
) in Nicolas, I, clxiii-clxiv.
Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 429 (1929), item 195.
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.
mr Walter Noell.3o. Aprill. — 1660 — 1660) on a conveyance of property in Halfhead by Walter Noell to Walton, 3 April 1660.
A Writing Concerning Halfhed) on a recovery of property in Halfhead by Brian Lane and Laurence Gaywood from William Parker, 28 November 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.
marksof 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.
Edited in Keynes (1929), p. 601. Facsimile in E. Marston, Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton (London, 1908), p. 116.
Mr Noell) on a mutilated leaf used as a wrapper and later endorsed, on 5 November 1694, by Canon Isaac Walton, [undated].
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.
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.
Facsimile of the inscription in Sotheran's sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa (1907), item 438, facing p. 88.
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.
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.
Sotheby's, 30 March 1882, lot 1459.
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.
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.
Recorded in W.G. Hiscock, A Christ Church Miscellany (Oxford, 1946), p. 10.
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).
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.
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.
Sotheran's sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa (1907), item 438, with a facsimile of the inscription facing p. 88.
Coz[en] Lewin.
Puttick & Simpson's, 28 January 1891, lot 272, to Sotheran.
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.
Sotheby's, 30 January 1914 (John Pearson sale), lot 574, to Maggs.
Sotheby's, 9 April 1902 (Lt.-Col. Edward George Hibbert sale), lot 885, to Quaritch.
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.
Maggs's sale catalogue No. 937 (Autumn 1971), item 147.
Sotheby's, 14 February 1917 (Col. W.F. Prideaux sale, 12th day), lot 3685, to Edwards. Sotheby's, 9 February 1982, lot 362, unsold.
Sotheby's, 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale, 10th day), lot 3076, to Stevens.
Recorded in Nicolas, I, xxiv.
cozen Tomlins.
Sotheran's sale catalogue No. 995 (March 1986), item 114.
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).
cozen Williams.
Sotheby's, 30 November 1898 (Edward Snow sale), lot 581, to Maurice.
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.
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.
Sister Beacham.
Sotheby's. 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 2012. Hodgson's, 31 March 1915, lot 85, to Manning.
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.
Sotheby's. 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 2013. Sotheby's, 14 March 1956 (J.W. Hely-Hutchinson sale), lot 626A, to Keinbusch.
Puttick & Simpson's, 7 February 1895, 2nd day, lot 464, to Pickering.
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.
Complete facsimile published by the Scolar Press (Menston, 1969).
Recorded in W.G. Hiscock, A Christ Church Miscellany (Oxford, 1946), p. 10.
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.
Later in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.
Sotheby's, 18 June 1897 (H. Spencer Smith sale), lot 656, to Pickering. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 October 1946, lot 529.
Pickering & Chatto's sale catalogue for 1899, item 3402.
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
.
brother [John] Chalkhill.
Sotheby's, 20 December 1838 (Rev. H. S. Cotton sale), lot 183, to Jote.
Sotheby's, 18 July 1916, lot 340, to Jenkins.
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.
Sotheby's, 8 November 1916, lot 315, to Maggs. American Art Association, New York, 7 November 1934, lot 342.
Sotheby's, 18 June 1904 (Isham sale), lot 348, to Edwards.
Sotheby's, 14 December 1981, lot 150, to Quaritch, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.
Francis Edwards's sale catalogue No. 700 (1950), item 494.
Sotheby's, 12 August 1854 (William Pickering sale, 12th day), lot 3658, to Stevens. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 October 1946, lot 530.
Quaritch's sale Catalogue of English Literature
(August-November 1884), item 23235.
my Oncle Mr. John R.
Sotheby's, 12 August 1854 (William Pickering sale, 12th day), lot 3655, to Brooks.
Sotheby's, 23 March 1907 (William C. Van Antwerp sale), lot 236, to Thomas.
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.
Pickering & Chatto, A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books
, [c.1910?], p. 575, item 392a.
Christie's, New York, 18 November 1988 (John F. Fleming sale), lot 356.
Christie's, 3 March 2004 (Halsted B. Vander Poel sale), lot 36.
Sotheby's, 7 November 1899 (Tixall sale), lot 712, to Sabin. Recorded in Nicolas, I, lxxvi-lxxvii.
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.
Later in the Oxford Library of John Sparrow (1906-1992), literary scholar and book collector. Christie's, 21 October 1992, lot 289, to Rota.
Later in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.
Lady Bowles.
Recorded in Marvin Spevack, The Library at Hughenden Manor, The Book Collector, 59/4 (Winter 2010), p. 565.
Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 696 (1951), item 320.
Sotheby's, 12 August 1854 (William Pickering sale, 12th day), lot 3663, to Toovey.
Pickering & Chatto's sale catalogue for 1900, item 2093.
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.
Sotheran's sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa (1907), item 441. Later in the library of John Buxton.
Puttick & Simpson's, 11 December 1895 (W. Pennant sale), lot 186, to Pickering.
with copy of a letter from Donne written on fly-leaf).
Sotheby's, 8 June 1894, lot 231, to Pickering.
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.
Binder.
Christie's, 16 March 1888 (Earl of Aylesford sale), lot 1771.
CozenMrs 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.
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.
three-word autograph inscription (unsigned).
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 October 1946, lot 531.
Ex libris Elizabeth Chas…ex Dono Author.
Sotheran's sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa (1907), item 442.
Recorded in Nicolas, I, c.
Izaak Waltonon 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).
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.
John Pearson's sale catalogue 200 Books from the Libraries of …Book-collectors [undated, but before 1914], item 41.
Izaak: Waltonon flyleaf; also signed in 1674 by Canon Isaac Walton.
Izaak Waltonon title-page.
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.
Izaak: Waltonon 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.
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 CnC 167.
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.
Izaak: Waltonon the title-page; also signed by Canon Isaac Walton.
Izaak: Walton given mee by my very good ffrend mar Henry ffeild July 29 1634; also signed in 1674 by Canon Isaac Walton.
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.
Sotheby's, 14 March 1956 (J.W. Hely-Hutchinson sale), lot 626C, to Keinbusch.
Sotheby's, 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale, 3rd day), lot 772, to Bumstead.
Izaak Walton Price — 4s. 6 — nour. 17°: 1652; also signed by Canon Isaac Walton.
Sotheby's, 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale, 3rd day), lot 784, to Tupling.
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
.
Izaak Waltonon 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.
Izaak Walton, given me by Mr. Cotton. August 30, 1681and 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.
Izaak Waltonon 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.
Izaak Walton .1682.; also signed by Canon Isaac Walton.
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.
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, 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.
Izaak: Waltonon the second flyleaf and
Izaak: Waltonon 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.
This is supposed to have been Izaak Walton's copy.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 April 1941 (A. Edwaed Newton sale), lot 566.
Izaak Walton. Giuen me by mr Marryot the 7°. of nouember 1650and 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.
A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 277.
Facsimile of the inscribed title-page in Robert H. Taylor Collection, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 38 (1977), Plate 8, after p. 96.
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.
Izaak: Walton(blotched) on the title-page.
NB. Walton bequeathed one volume of Donne's sermons to Dr Hawkins.
auntMrs 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.
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.
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.
Izaak: Waltonon 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.
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
.
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.
Izaak Walton; also with a note
The legacy of Mr. I. walton, 1683/84.
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.
Izaak Waltonon the title-page.
Izaak: Waltonon the title-page,
ex Æde Christi Oxoadded in another hand to resignify Canon Isaac Walton, the date
1669also 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.
Izaak. Waltonon 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
errataleaf on sig. A4v.
Izaak Waltonand also by Canon Isaac Walton.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4 March 1946, lot 272.
Izaak: Waltonon the title-page.
Izaak Walton Giuen me may 28: 1659 by mr: Rich Marryot; also signed by Canon Isaac Walton.
Izaak Waltonon a flyleaf, and
Izaak: Waltonon the first decorative title-page.
Sotheby's, 20 November 1899 (Lord Rendlesham sale), lot 1461, to Pearson.
Izaak: Waltonon the title-page.
Solus Deus ptector Meus W., apparently in the handwriting of Izaak Walton.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 October 1946, lot 525.
Izaak: Waltonon 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.
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 CnC 185.
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.
Izaak: walton July: 5: 1621.
Izaak Walton price: 5s.
Izak: Walton — 1620on the title-page; also inscribed on a flyleaf by Canon Isaac Walton
I: Walton ex Æde Xti Oxon.
Izaak: Waltonon 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.
Izaak Waltonon the title-page.
Izaak Walton, June 25°, 1658and 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.
Izaak: Walton given me by Mr John King Septer. 12°. 1669.
Izaak Walton.
Izaak: Waltonon the title-page, an autograph couplet
Off this blest man, let this Just praise be giuen: / Heauen was in him, before he was in Heauenat 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
.
Izaak Waltonon 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.
Izaak Walton 1682on the title-page.
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.
Formerly in the Pleadwell Collection, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Izaak Waltonon a flyleaf.
Izaak Walton, Aprill 1681.
Sotheby's, 7 August 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 3417. Sotheran's sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa (1907), item 583.
Izaak Waltonon 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
.
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.
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.
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.
cozenFrancis Hollinshed(?).
Sotheby's, 16 June 1964, lot 672, to Maggs.
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.
For Honest Will. Iles.
Maggs's sale catalogue No. 505 (1928), item 2424.
Jasp. Nedham. Sent me by Mr. Iz. Walton. May 10. 1672.
Quaritch's sale catalogue English Books before 1701 (October 1983), item 42.
