Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or A collection of lives, letters, poems; with characters of sundry personages: and other incomparable pieces of language and art. By the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sr Henry Wotton Kt, late provost of Eton Colledge.

All titles

• Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or A collection of lives, letters, poems; with characters of sundry personages: and other incomparable pieces of language and art. By the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sr Henry Wotton Kt, late provost of Eton Colledge.
• Collection of lives, letters, poems
• Aphorisms of education.

People / Organizations

• Henry Wotton (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by Thomas Maxey, for R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait, 1654.

Added name

Lombart, Pierre, 1612-1682, engraver Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683. Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674. Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. Short view of the life and death of George Villers, Duke of Buckingham. Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. Ad Regem Scotia reducem Henrici Wottonii plausus et vota. English Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1638. Parallell betweene Robert late Earle of Essex, and George late Duke of Buckingham.

Publication year

1654

ESTC No.

R38765

Grub Street ID

120818

Description

[12], 95, [1], 144, 135-254, 253-304, 305-320, 305-515, [1] p. : ill., ports. ; 12⁰

Note

Editor's dedication signed: I.W., i.e. Izaak Walton.

With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (A1v) signed: PLombart sculp.

The words: "lives, ... poems," are bracketed together on title page.

Among the contents: The life of Sir Henry Wotton by Iz[aak]. Walton; Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiars [sic], Duke of Buckingham; The difference and disparity between the estates and conditions of George Duke of Buckingham, and Robert Earl of Essex ... by the Earl of Clarendon [Edward Hyde]; A view of the life and death of Geo. Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; A panegyrick to King Charls; A concept 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 aphorisms of education; The great action between Pompey and Cesar; A meditation upon the XXIIth chapter of Genesis; A meditation upon Christmas-day; Letters, &c. and characters of sundr personages, found among the papers of Sr. Henry Wotton, Knight; Poems.