Reliquiae Wottonianae : or, a collection of lives, letters, poems, with characters of sundry personages and other incomparable pieces of language and art. Also additional letters to several persons not before printed
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Type of record: Book
Title: Reliquiae Wottonianae : or, a collection of lives, letters, poems, with characters of sundry personages and other incomparable pieces of language and art. Also additional letters to several persons not before printed
Classmark: English H-54/WOO
Creator(s): Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639)
Additional creator(s): Walton, Izaak (1593-1683) (Other); Clarendon, Edward Hyde Earl of (1609-1674) (Other)
Related people: Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628; Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601; Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628; Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639; Walton, Izaak; Clarendon, Edward Hyde
Publisher: Printed for B. Tooke [etc.]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1685
Language: English
Size and medium: [10], [76], [2], 713 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/186487
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008536929705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Dedication signed Izaac Walton.
Contents: The life of Sir Henry Wotton [by I. Walton]--An elegie on Sir Henry Wotton, writ by Mr. Abraham Cowley.--A letter to Marcus Velserus.--A letter to the regius professor.--The elements of architecture.--A philosophical survey of education, or moral archicture.--A conceipt of some observatons intended upon thins most remarkable in the civil history of this kingdom.--Ad regem e Scotia reducem Henrici Wottonii plausus et vota.--A panegyrick to King Charles.--Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiars, Duke of Buckingham: some observations by way of parallel.--The difference and disparity between the estates and conditions of George Duke of Buckingham, and Robert Earl of Essex; written by the Earl of Clarendon.--A view of the life and death of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.--The great action between Pompey and Cesar.--A character of Ferdinando di Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.--The election of the Duke of Venice.--A meditation upon the twenty second chapter of
Genesis.--A meditation upon Christmas day.--Letters to several persons.--Poems.--Letters to Sir Edmund Bacon.--Additional letters to several persons.--Letters to the Lord Zouch.
Wing W-3651.
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