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Excerpt from Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton: Author of the Complete Angler With Notes and Preface
To the prefent Editor the colleetion and anno ration of thefe Remains has been a mol't welcome labour of love. Some of his oldef'c and molt cherilhed memories conneet themfelves with the author of the Complete Angler. That book was one of the firl't that he ever read with real and genuine delight; and even before reading days commenced, in the earliel't dawn of memory, the place where Walton had cut his familiar fig nature of Iz. Wa. On Chaucer's tomb in Weft mini'ter Abbey, was pointed out to him often by a kindred fpirit now' here no more. The name of Walton will alfo be found enfhrined in the earlielt profe produetion* to which the Editor prefixed his own name.
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