Salisbury Cathedral

O. 1. 18

An exemplum inscribed on the title-page ‘Liber Izaak Wallton’; also signed in 1674 by Canon Isaac Walton. c.1674.

*WtI 149: Izaak Walton, Cowper, William. Heaven Opened, 3rd edition (London, 1613)

O. 1. 38

An exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak: Walton’ on the title-page; also signed by Canon Isaac Walton. Early-mid 17th century.

*WtI 137: Izaak Walton, Calvin, Jean. The Institution of Christian Religion, trans. Thomas Norton (London, 1582)

O. 2. 24

Exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak: Walton’ on flyleaf; also signed in 1674 by Canon Isaac Walton. c.1674.

*WtI 131: Izaak Walton, Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, [trans. Meric Casaubon], 2nd edition (London, 1635)

P. 2. 8(f)

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.

*WtI 191: Izaak Walton, Pindar, William. A Sermon (London, 1677)

This volume was donated to Salisbury Cathedral in 1837 by Herbert Hawes, a collateral descendant of Walton.

P. 4. 1. (d)

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. 1670s.

*WtI 152: Izaak Walton, Denton, William. The Burnt Child dreads the Fire (London, 1675)

P. 4. 9. (c)

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.

*WtI 163: Izaak Walton, Draxe, Thomas. The Worldes-Resurrection (London, 1608)

P. 4. 9. (d)

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.

*WtI 145: Izaak Walton, Cotta, John. The Infallible True and Assured Witch (London, 1624)

Sotheby's sale catalogue, 10 July 1986, lot 31, with a facsimile of the signature in the sale catalogue.

P. 4. 9 (e)

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.

*WtI 134: Izaak Walton, Baddeley, Richard. The Boy of Bilson (London, 1622)

P. 4. 50

A printed exemplum signed by Walton (‘Iz. Wa’) and with his autograph corrections.

*WtI 82: Izaak Walton, The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert (London, 1670)

Ownership signature of J. Greene on the title-page and bookplate of Henry Andrews Ingraham. Sotheby's, 13 December 1990, lot 13.

P. 5. 7(a)

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. Mid-late 17th century.

*WtI 172: Izaak Walton, Godwin, Thomas. Moses and Aaron, 3rd edition (London, 1628)

This volume came to Salisbury Cathedral later than 1816.

Q. 1. 19

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. Mid-17th century.

*WtI 198: Izaak Walton, Sibbes, Richard. Bowels Opened, 3rd edition (London, 1648)

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’.

R. 1. 11

An exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak Walton’ on a flyleaf, and ‘Izaak: Walton’ on the first decorative title-page. Late 17th century.

*WtI 179: Izaak Walton, Hooker, Richard. Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie (London, 1666)

R. 1. 13

An exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak: Walton’ on the title-page. Mid-17th century.

*WtI 181: Izaak Walton, James I, King of England, Workes (London, 1616)

R. 1. 14

Exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak: Walton’ (blotched) on the title-page. NB. Walton bequeathed one volume of Donne's sermons to Dr Hawkins. c.1640.

*WtI 161: Izaak Walton, Donne, John. LXXX Sermons (London, 1640)

R. 4. 7

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. c.1636.

*WtI 165: Izaak Walton, Eusebius, Socrates and Evagrius. The Ancient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Years after Christ (London, 1636)

The notes edited (with errors) in Nicolas, I, clv-clvi, and in Keynes (1929), pp. 579-80.

R. 4. 19

An exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak: Walton’ on a flyleaf; also signed in 1674 by Canon Isaac Walton. Mid-17th century.

*WtI 184: Izaak Walton, King, John (Bishop of London). Lectures upon Ionas (London, 1618)

Recorded [by Dean Arthur M. Coon], with a facsimile of the signature, in Seventeenth-Century News, 6 (1948), p. 5.

R. 5. 7

An exemplum inscribed on the verso of the half-title ‘Izaak Walton Price — 4s. 6 — nour. 17°: 1652’; also signed by Canon Isaac Walton. 1652.

*WtI 142: Izaak Walton, Charron, Pierre. Of Wisdome, trans. Samson Lennard (London, [1608])

R. 5. 11

An exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak Walton’ on a flyleaf. Mid-17th century.

*WtI 204: Izaak Walton, Symson, Patrick. The Historie of the Church (London, 1624)

T. 2. 36

An exemplum inscribed on the title-page ‘Izaak Walton .1682.’; also signed by Canon Isaac Walton. 1682.

*WtI 148: Izaak Walton, Cowley, Abraham. Works, 4th edition (London, 1674)

T. 2. 45

William Browne's printed exemplum of Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II (1616), bound with other MS works by him. c.1613.

[The printed text]

*BrW 5: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II

A few marginal MS corrections and revisions to the printed text made by one or perhaps two amanuenses, with one or two single-word alterations in Browne's own hand, some additional pencil markings in a modern hand. [1616-1625].

This volume used as copy-text in Goodwin. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘Towards a Text of Browne's Britannia's Pastorals’, The Library, 4th Ser. 11 (1930-1), 193-202.

Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.

[unnumbered pages]

BrW 16: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book III

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, incomplete or unfinished, 47 pages. c.1624-5.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 23-75. For discussions of dating, see Joan Ozark Holmer ‘Internal Evidence for Dating William Browne's Britannia's Pastorals, Book III’, PBSA, 70 (1976), 347-64, and Cedric C. Brown and Margherita Piva, ‘William Browne, Marino, France, and the Third Book of Britannia's Pastorals’, RES, NS 29 (1978), 385-404.

First published in London, 1852, ed T.C. Croker, Percy Society.

[unnumbered page]

*BrW 2: William Browne of Tavistock, Amour (‘Like to the world my love I find to be’)

Autograph fair copy, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1613.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin.

First published in Goodwin (1894), II, 225-6.

[unnumbered page]

*BrW 60: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Look as a bough out lately from the rind’

Autograph fair copy, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1613.

First published in Goodwin (1894), II, 226.

[unnumbered page]

*BrW 244: William Browne of Tavistock, Sonnet (‘For her gait if she be walking’)

Autograph fair copy, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1613.

First published in Goodwin (1894), II, 226-7.

[unnumbered pages]

*BrW 241: William Browne of Tavistock, The Shepherd's Pipe. Eclogue 4 (‘Under an aged oak was Willie laid’)

Autograph draft, written on the available space on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1613.

This MS collated in Goodwin, II, 343-5.

Facsimile pages in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 31; in IELM, I, i (1980), Facsimile V; and in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 38.

First published in London, 1614. Goodwin, II, 77-164 (pp. 134-41).

T. 3. 14

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. 1634.

*WtI 138: Izaak Walton, Camerarius, Philippus. The Living Librarie, [trans. John Molle] (London, 1621)

T. 3. 33

An exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak Walton 1682’ on the title-page. Mid-late 17th century.

*WtI 200: Izaak Walton, Sibbes, Richard. The Saints Cordialls, (London, 1658)

T. 4. 6

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’. Mid-17th century.

*WtI 190: Izaak Walton, Perkins, William. The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience (London, 1619)

T. 4. 7

An exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak Walton’ on the title-page. Mid-17th century.

*WtI 193: Izaak Walton, Reynolds, Edward. A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man (London, 1640)

T. 4. 12

An exemplum inscribed on the title-page ‘Izaak: walton July: 5: 1621’. 1621.

*WtI 187: Izaak Walton, Mornay, Philippe de. A Worke concerning the Trunesse of Christian Religion (London, 1617)

T. 4. 20

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. Mid-17th century.

*WtI 174: Izaak Walton, Hammond, Henry. The Christians Obligations to Peace & Charity (London, 1649)

T. 4. 22

An exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak Walton’ on the title-page. c.1651.

*WtI 170: Izaak Walton, Fuller, Thomas. Abel Redevivus (London, 1651)

T. 4. 24

An exemplum inscribed on the title-page ‘Izaak Walton Giuen me may 28: 1659 by mr: Rich Marryot’; also signed by Canon Isaac Walton. Late 17th century.

*WtI 177: Izaak Walton, Heylyn, Peter. The Parable of the Tares Expounded & Applyed (London, 1659)

T. 4. 50

A printed exemplum inscribed on the title-page ‘Izaak Walton’. Mid-17th century.

*WtI 197: Izaak Walton, Shute, Josiah. Divine Cordials (London, 1644)

T. 4. 51

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’.

*WtI 155: Izaak Walton, Donne, John. Letters to Severall Persons of Honours (London, 1651)

Walton's autograph annotations discussed in J. E. Butt, ‘Walton's Copy of Donne's Letters (1651)’, RES, 8 (1932), 72-4.

T. 5. 2

An exemplum inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Izaak Walton price: 5s’. Early-mid-17th century.

*WtI 188: Izaak Walton, Ovid. Ovid's Metamorphosis, [trans. George Sandys] (London, 1626)

T. 6. 22

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’. Mid-17th century.

*WtI 199: Izaak Walton, Sibbes, Richard. The Returning Backslider, 3rd edition (London, 1650)

The autograph couplet here edited in Waltoniana (1878) and in Keynes (1929), p. 584.

T. 6. 48

An exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak: Walton’ on the title-page.

*WtI 176: Izaak Walton, Heylyn, Peter. Microcosmus, or A Little Description of the Great World (Oxford, 1621)

T. 6. 50

Exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak Walton’ on title-page. 17th century.

*WtI 132: Izaak Walton, Bacon, Francis. Essayes (London, 1625)