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. Signature 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 to form border and double blind fillet parallel to spine. Double blind fillet along board edges. Four raised bands edged with double blind lines; spine otherwise undecorated, no spine label. Endbands: primary sewing in plain thread with bead or crossover in front. Tailband partially loose. Pastedown with conjugate endleaf and additional endleaves at both ends. Four supports laced in. Undecorated leaf edges. Worm damage to head of lower board.
Makers and roles
Sir Henry Wotton (1568 - 1639) William Dolle (London 1632 -1680), engraver (printmaker)