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Reliquiæ Wottonianæ : Or, A collection of lives, letters, poems; with characters of sundry personages: and other incomparable pieces of language and art

Archive Print Item: BC Lt d/WOT

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Type of record: Book

Title: Reliquiæ Wottonianæ : Or, A collection of lives, letters, poems; with characters of sundry personages: and other incomparable pieces of language and art

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt d/WOT

Creator(s): Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639)

Additional creator(s): Clarendon, Edward Hyde Earl of (1609-1674) (Other); Lombard, Pierre (1612-1682) (Other); Walton, Izaak (1593-1683) (Other)

Related people: Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628; Clarendon, Edward Hyde; Lombard, Pierre; Walton, Izaak

Publisher: Printed by Thomas Maxey, for R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1654

Language: English

Size and medium: [12], 515 (i.e. 639), [1] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/273448

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018444729705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Pagination and signatures irregular throughout.


Contents: The life of Sir Henry Wotton [by Izaac Walton, whose initials sign the Epistle dedicatory]--Of Robert Devereux, earl of Essex; and George Villiers, 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 ... [by Edward Hyde, 1st earl Clarendon]--A view of the life and death of Geo. Villiers, duke of Buckingham.--A panegyrick to King Charles ...--A conceipt of some observations intended upon things most remarkable in the civil history of this kingdom ...--The election of the new duke of Venice after the death of Giovanni Bembo.--The elements of architecture ...--A philosophicall surveigh of education, or moral architecture.--The great action between Pompey and Caesar ...--A meditation upon the XXIIth chapter of Genesis.--A meditation upon Christmas-day ...--Letters, &c. and characters of sundry personages, found among the papers of Sr. Henry Wotton.--Poems.


Wing W3649.

Additional description

A few minor MS notes in margins and on final endpapers illegible signature and price 3s. 6d on title-page. Armorial bookplate of Richard Mostyn of Penbedw, and, pasted over it, of Watkin Williams, also of Penbedw

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