Reliqui Wottonian, 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.

Contributor:

Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.

Roycroft, Thomas, -1677, printer.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Biography.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

lxxxii unnumbered pages, 582, that is, 588 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : portraits ; 18 cm

Edition:

The third edition, with large additions.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by T. Roycroft for R. Marriott [et. al.], 1672.

Contents:

1. The elements of architecture

2. A survey of education

3. Aphorisms of education

4. Characters of some kings of England

5. Vita Henrici Sexti

6. Ad regem e Scotia reducem H.W. plausus & vota

7. A panegyrick to King Charles

8. The parallel

9. The disparity

10. The life of the duke of Buckingham

11. The great action between Pompey and Caeser

12 A character of Ferdinand, grand duke of Tuscany

13. The election of the new duke of Venice

14. A meditation on Gen. 22

15. A meditation on Christmas-day

16. Letters to several persons

17. Poems

18. Letters to Sir Edmund Bacon

19. Additional letters to several persons, never before printed.

Notes:

Pages 76-7, 328 incorrectly numbered 72-3, 28, respectively; no. 76-9, 411-12, repeated in the paging.

Title within double line border; head pieces, initials.

Ed. by I. Walton.

"The life of Sir Henry Wotton" by I. Walton, p. [x]-[lxix].

Local Notes:

Imperfect: p. 111-112 wanting.

Cited in:

Wing W3650.

OCLC:

248973410