The Complete Angler 1653

By Walton, Isaak

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Title:	The Complete Angler 1653
Author:	Walton, Isaak
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
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The ?first edition? has been a favorite theme for the scorn of those who love it not. ?The first edition?and the worst!? gibes a modern poet, and many are the true lovers of literature entirely insensitive to the accessory, historical or sentimental, associations of books. The present writer possesses a copy of one of Walton?s Lives, that of Bishop Sanderson, with the author?s donatory inscription to a friend upon the title-page. To keep this in his little library he has undergone willingly many privations, cheerfully faced hunger and cold rather than let it pass from his hand; yet, how often when, tremulously, he has unveiled this treasure to his visitors, how often has it been examined with undilating eyes, and cold, unenvious hearts! Yet so he must confess himself to have looked upon a friend?s superb first edition of ?Pickwick? though surely not without that measure of interest which all, save the quite unlettered or unintelligent, must feel in seeing the first visible shape of a book of such resounding significance in English literature.