8vo. 146pp, [2]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. A reissue, with cancel title page, of the edition with 'Richard Marriott' in the imprint. Contemporary speckled calf boards, recently rebacked. Boards rubbed. Inked ownership inscription 'C. Preston. 1812' and later armorial bookplate of John Norcliffe Preston of Flasby Hall, Yorkshire, to FEP, head of leaf A3 a trifle shaved, early manuscript note to verso of RFEP: 'Sacred to Satire & to Ridicule Each vain pretender Each conceit fool'.

The first edition, second issue, of Izaak Walton's (1593-1683) biography of Church of England clergyman and poet George Herbert (1593-1633). It first appeared in advance, not as one may expect for an edition of Herbert's works, but for a collected edition in the same year of the four lives Walton had so far written, which sufficiently indicates, perhaps, not only the extent to which Walton had become established as a biographer but also the new regard which was being accorded to the genre. The second half of the biography turns into a celebration of the liturgy found in the Book of Common Prayer, as well as of Herbert's diligent upholding of its practice.