SKETCH BOOK

OF

GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT,

“ I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere
spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play
their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from
a common theatre or scene."

BURTON

Ixuin

FIFTH EDITION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

MDCCCXXI.

EPB

PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1899.

LONDON: PRIXTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.

TO

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

THIS WORK

IS DEDICATED,

IN TESTIMONY OF THE

ADMIRATION AND AFFECTION

OF

THE AUTHOR.