Authority Cited: Walton; Watson’s [Walton’s] Life of Sanderson
Author name and dates: Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
BKG Bio-tweet: Ironmonger; writer; Donne friend; at Royalist defeat retired to land by river; Lives of Donne, others, character portraits
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: About 76 total Walton cites in vol. 1 of the 1755 Dict. and 90 total Walton cites in vol. 2. Four Walston cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. About 90% of the Walton cites are from the Compleat Angler, and about 15 % of the quotes are used for more than one headword. The 1st edition of the Compleat Angler was 1653, but SJ must have used a later edition as dog-fisher does not appear in the 1st Compleat Angler edition.]
Author name and dates: Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
BKG Bio-tweet: Ironmonger; writer; Donne friend; at Royalist defeat retired to land by river; Lives of Donne, others, character portraits
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: About 76 total Walton cites in vol. 1 of the 1755 Dict. and 90 total Walton cites in vol. 2. Four Walston cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. About 90% of the Walton cites are from the Compleat Angler, and about 15 % of the quotes are used for more than one headword. The 1st edition of the Compleat Angler was 1653, but SJ must have used a later edition as dog-fisher does not appear in the 1st Compleat Angler edition.]
- Angler (Compleat Angler) The compleat angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation. Part. I. Being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing, The Fifth Edition, much corrected, and enlarged, 1676, London: Printed for Richard Marriott. OR The compleat angler: or, contemplative man's recreation. in two parts. Containing, I. A large and particular account of rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing: written by the ingenious and celebrated Mr. Isaac Walton. II. The best and fullest instructions how to angle for a trout and Grayling in a clear Stream. By Charles Cotton, Esq; and published by Mr. Walton, 1750, London : printed and sold by Henry Kent, at the Printing-Office in Finch-Lane, near the Royal Exchange; apt; arm; augment; ayry; barb; barbel (same quote as barb); bent; bite; biter; bittern; bleak; brancher; brandling; bream; bull-head; bull-trout; caddis; calmer; candock; canker; carrier; chavender; cheerer (same quote as calmer); choicely; chub; cloisteral; conger; contentedness (same quote as calmer); coyness; craber (same quote as bittern); crewel; cropper (same quote as carrier); culverkey; dace (same quote as bleak); dap; demur; desk; dewworm (same quote as brandling); diverter (same quote as calmer); docibleness; dog-fisher (definition error: Walton refers to an otter, not a fish); drag; drip; expire; falcon; fallingsickness (same quote as dog-fisher); fitchat; flag; flag-worm; float; flout; flyfish; fortunetell; fulimart (same quote as fitchat); gentle (same quote as flag-worm); gill; grayling; ground-bait; grow; hackle; haggard; harmlessly; hawthorn (1755 Dict. only); hawthorn fly (same quote as hawthorn); hen-driver; hurt; inspire; jaw; lady's-smock (same quote as culverkey); lamprey; leather-mouthed; leger; lentner (same quote as haggard); leverook; limp; loach; lob (same quote as brandling); mallard; marsh; may-fly; medicinible; mew; milt; milter; minnow (2); moderator; mouldwarp; nurse; oh; paddock; peascod; peckled; perch; pickerel-weed; pike; pope; procurer; puet; reate; recarry; roach; ruff; runt; salmon; salmontrout; samlet; saw; scotch; scour; short; skegger; skull; sniggle; so; somniferous; spawner; sportiveness; sticklebag; sug; summersault; sunrise; sweet; swelter; swift; sycamine/sycamore; tackling; tagtail; throstle; titlark; trespasser; valiant; unbed; undervaluer; usery; watch; water; waterlilly; waterrat; wattle (2); wear; wet; whistle (same quote as wet); willowish; winter; yield;
- Life of Bishop Sanderson; The Life of Dr. Sanderson, Late Bishop of Lincoln, 1678, London : Printed for Richard Marriot; apothegm (Watkin's); bookseller (Saunderson); committee; complete; gray; illogical; imposer; indispose; king; matriculate; nightwalk; pertinaceous; professorship; puritanical; puritanism; sad; self; simony; standing (1755 Dict. only); subrector; visiter; [BKG Note: per Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (204), The Life of Dr. Sanderson (1678), marked by SJ, is in the National Library of Wales - BX.5199.S2.W23; Lot 244 (octavo) of the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. is "10. Life of Dr. Sanderson, &c."]