Author: WOTTON, SIR HENRY
Title: Reliquiae Wottonianae. Or a Collection of Lives, Letters and Poems with Characters of Sundry Personages: And Other Incomparable Pieces of Language and Art.
Description: London, R. Marriot, G. Bedel and T. Garthwait. 1654, Second Edition. Full-Leather, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book, [12], 95, 515 pages, frontispiece portrait and 3 other portrait plates, contemporary leather boards, a newer leather spine, 4 raised bands, new endpapers. Contains "The Life of Henry Wotton by Izaak Walton and "Of the Elements of Architecture". Also other writings by Wotton. This is the rare second edition with large additions. Wotton's lives 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; A panegyrick to King Charls (with separate title page and frontispiece); 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 Cæsar; A meditation upon Christmas-day; and Poems found among the papers of S.H. Wotton. Nearly Very Good.

Keywords: Architecture, Biography


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