Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A collection of lives, letters, poems; with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art
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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
Classmark: BC Lt d/WOT
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; Walton, Izaak; Clarendon, Edward Hyde
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Maxey, for R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1651
Language: English
Size and medium: [60], 540 p., [4] leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/273450
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018444809705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
"The life of Sir Henry Wotton" is by Izaak Walton.
"The difference and disparity between the estates and conditions of George, Duke of Buckingham, and Robert, Earl of Essex" is attributed in this edition to Sir Henry Wotton, but is actually by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. Cf. NUC pre-1956.
"Epistle dedicatory" signed J.W.
"The life of Sir Henry Wotton" signed Iz. Wa. [Izaak Walton], pp.[xiii-lx].
Title within a border of typographical ornaments. Head- and tail-pieces. Initials.
Pages 222, 246, 532-534 misnumbered 122, 146, 232, 333, 234; leaf b3 missigned b2, O4 as O7, and Q5 as R5.
Errata on p. [12] at front.
Wing W3648.
Additional description
Signature, Jo: Humfrie ... 71 on verso of frontispiece, and of Charles Tennyson, 17th October 1810 on front paste-down. Paper fault, affecting gathering c
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