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 College.

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  • hardcover
  • London: Marriot, 1651
By WOTTON, Henry
London: Marriot, 1651. First. hardcover. very good(+). 4 copper engraved portraits. 24mo, 540 pages, full brown calf, tan spine label, blind stamping on covers. London: Printed by Thomas Maxey, for R. Marriot, 1651. First Edition. Very scarce. A very good (+) copy, internally fine.

The first collected edition of the works of Henry Wotton (1568-1639), Elizabethan man of letters and diplomat, which includes his Elements of Architecture, other essays, fifteen poems letters and aphorisms. Heckscher 2199; Wing 3648; STC 26011; Westwood & Sctchell p. 243.


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