first edition
1670 · London
by Walton, Izaak
London: Tho. Newcomb for Richard Marriott, 1670. First collected edition. Nineteenth-century owner's ticket to front pastedown; ink inscriptions, sizeable chip to p. 9-10 of Donne with loss of text; small chip to B4 (p. 15-16) of Hooker; F1 (p. 65-66 of Donne) missing; Hooker mispagination from 157ff.; generally soiled, with occasional small chip; endsheets discolored from binding leather; covers worn, backstrip partly separated.. 8vo, [2], [xii], 88, 79, 140 (i.e. 120), 104pp; contemporary panelled calf. Walton's Lives, short biographies of notable poets and clergymen, appeared serially and were here collected together for the first time in a single (truncated)