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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 published / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wotton Kt.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628.
- Buckingham, George Villiers.
- Physical Description:
- 88 unnumbered pages, 79, 76-412, 411-582 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 585-713 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portraits ; 18 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- Fourth edition / with additions of several letters to the Lord Zouch, never publish'd till now.
- Other Title:
- Collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for B. Tooke, at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard, and T. Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luce's in Little Britain, 1685.
- Contents:
- The life of Sir Henry Wotton [by I. Walton]
- An elegy on Sir Henry Wotton, by A. Cowley.
- Letter to Marcus Velserus.
- Letter to the right worthy provost and professor regius of divinity in Cambridge.
- The elements of architecture.
- A philosophicall survey of education, or moral architecture.
- The aphorisms of education.
- A conceipt of some observations intented upon things most remarkable in the civil history of this kingdom.
- Henrici VI., Angliae & Galliarum regis, Hiberniae domini, Etonensis ad Tamesin collegii conditoris, vita & excessus.
- Ad regem e Scotia reducem.
- A panegyrick to King Charles.
- 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 George Villiers, duke of Buckingham.
- The great action between Pompey and Caesar.
- A character of Ferdinando di Medici, grand duke of Tuscany.
- The election of the new duke of Venice; with other papers concerning the state prefixed.
- A meditation upon the twenty-second chapter of Genesis. A meditation upon Christmas-day.
- Letters to several person.
- Poems.
- Letters to Sir Edmund Bacon.
- Additional letters to several persons.
- Letters to the Lord Zouch.
- Notes:
- The words "lives, ... poems;" are bracketed together on title page.
- Text continuous despite pagination.
- "Sir Henry Wotton's letters to the Lord Zouch" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
- A philosophical survey of education, p. [73]-110, Ad Regem e Scotia reducem, dated 1633, p. [113]-133; Panegyric to King Charles, p. [135]-160; Of Robert Devereux, p. 161-203; A view of the life and death of George Villiers, p. [205]-238; The great action between Pompey and Caesar, p. 239-242; A character of Ferdinando di Medici, p. 243-264; A meditation upon the 22 chapter of Genesis, p. 265-272; and Letters to several persons, p. [273]-713, each has half-title.
- Cited in:
- Wing W3651
- ESTC R21126
- OCLC:
- 83425995
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