Reliquiæ Wottonianæ: . 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.
Sir Henry Wotton (1568 - 1639)
Category
Books
Date
1672
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3001603
Summary
Bibliographic description
[88], 412, 411-582, [2]p. ill. ports. (metal cut) ; 8vo. Running number: 1217. Gathering signed R loose. L5-6 are cancels. Provenance: Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Scattered pencil annotations from pp. 9 to 23. Binding: mid-to late seventeenth-century full dark brown calf with double blind fillet border and double blind rule parallel to spine; double blind fillet along board edges; four raised bands edged with double blind rules, spine otherwise undecorated, no spine label; four supports laced in; plain leaf edges. Worm damage to head of lower board.
Makers and roles
Sir Henry Wotton (1568 - 1639), author William Dolle (London 1632 -1680), engraver (printmaker)