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Great Britain
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Folger bibliographic ID: 142330
ESTC number: R209190
Wing number: W3648
Folger call number: W3648 copy 1
Folger holdings ID: 144002
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twelvemo
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Editor's dedication signed: J.W., i.e. Izaak Walton With an engraved frontispiece portrati of the author (plate) signed: PLombart sculp The words "lives, ... poems;" are bracketed together on title page The first leaf bears "Advice to the reader" and errata on verso Among the contents are: The life of Sir Henry Wotton [signed at end: Iz[aak]. Wa[lton].]; Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; The difference and disparity between the estates and conditions of George Duke of Buckingham, and Robert Earl of Essex [by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, but here attributed to Wotton]; A view of the life and death of Geo. Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; A panegyrick to King Charls; 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 Knight; Poems found among the papers of S.H. Wotton "A panegyrick to King Charls" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous Wotton's parallel between Essex and Villiers, his life of Buckingham, and his panegyrick to Charles I were also published separately, the latter in Latin with title: Ad Regem è Scotia reducem Henrici Wottonii plausus et vota Imprimatur at foot of p. 540: Imprimantur [sic]. Na. Brent Annotation on Thomason copy: "feb: 2 1650"
Item information about Folger W3648 copy 1
cs78. Engraved armorial bookplate signed: E. D. French sc. 1894. Lacking engr. port. after F2. Errata leaf bound as printed. Provenance: inscribed on t.p.: "W. H. Barnar[d?]"; engraved armorial bookplate of Marshall Clifford Lefferts (motto "nulla vestigia retrorsum"); 1902 Bangs & Co., N.Y., cat. ("The Lefferts Books April 21[-]24, 1902"), lot no. 1443
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Extended title: Reliquiae Wottonianae. Or, A collection of lives, letters, poems ; with characters of sundry personages: and other incomparable pieces of language and art. By the curious pensil of the ever memorable Sr Henry Wotton Kt, late, provost of Eton Colledg
Alternate titles: Collection of lives, letters, poems
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subject: Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639
subject: Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628
subject: Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601
subject: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649
printmaker: Lombart, Pierre, 1612-1682
associated with: Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683
associated with: Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674
former owner: Lefferts, Marshall C. (Marshall Clifford), 1848-1928