Thealma and Clearchus. A pastoral romance. / By John Chalkhill. First published by Isaac Walton, 1683.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chalkhill, John, active 1600.

Contributor:

Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.

Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858, editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xviii, 134 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : frontispiece ; 17 cm

Edition:

A new edition, revised and corrected.

Place of Publication:

Chiswick : C. Whittingham, 1820.

Notes:

Title vignette.

Reprint of original edition, including preface by Walton, whom Singer suspected of being the author.

Dedication signed: S. W. Singer.

With facsim. of the t.p. of the 1683 ed.

"Of the author nothing is positively known, and some have thought that he was a mere mask for Walton himself, which is not at all probable"--Cambridge hist. of Eng. lit., v. 7, p. 87-88 (Cf. Dict. nat. biog.).

On cover: 230 copies only printed for sale.

OCLC:

249192746