| Ref No | EFP/094/A 094/1654/14 |
| Finding Number | A094/1654/14 |
| Title | 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 |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 1654 |
| Description | Selections; Collection of lives, letters, poems; Short view of the life and death of George Villers, Duke of Buckingham; Ad Regem e? Scotia reducem Henrici Wottonii plausus et vota. English; Parallell betweene Robert late Earle of Essex, and George late Duke of Buckingham; Aphorisms of education
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.; "The aphorisms of education" (caption title), numbered pp. 305-320 (first count) bears instructions at foot of p. 320: Insert this between p. 304 and 305.; Text continuous despite pagination.; 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 e? Scotia reducem Henrici Wottonii plausus et vota.; Imprimatur at end of text: Imprimantur [sic]. Na. Brent.; -"The aphorisms of education"; 165227.; Collection of lives, letters, poems.; Microfilm.; ESTCR38765.
The second edition with large additions. |
| Author | Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639; Lombart, Pierre, 1612-1682, engraver; Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683; Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674; Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1638 |
| Subject | Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639; Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628; CharlesI, King of England, 1600-1649; Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601; Architecture; Great Britain |
| Physical Description | [12], 95, [1], 144, 135-254, 253-304, 305-320, 305-515, [1] p. : ill., ports. ; 12j. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | London : printed by Thomas Maxey, for R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait, 1654. |