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. By the Curious Pencil of the ever Memorable Sir Henry Wotton, K^t. Late Provost of Eaton Colledge. The Third Edition, with large Additions. _London, Printed by T. Roycroft, for R. Marriott, F. Tyton, T. Collins, and J. Ford,_ 1672.
Collation: A⁸b-e⁸f⁴C-2Q⁸, paged. Wanting 2Q 8 (? blank). Engraved portrait by Dolle. Epistle dedicatory to Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, signed Izaak Walton and dated Feb. 27, 1672. Address to the reader. ‘An Account of the Work.’ Life of Wotton signed Iz. Wa. Elegy on Wotton signed A. Cowley. Letter from Wotton to Marcus Velserus of Augsburg in Latin and same in English, dated ‘London, Decemb. 2. after the Julian Accompt’ 1612. Letter from Wotton to the Regius Professor of Divinity in Cambridge dated Jan. 17, 1637. Table of contents at the end. Contains an engraved portrait of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, at sig. K 2^v and of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, at sig. P 8^v, both signed by Dolle. The first edition appeared in 1651; this is the third.
Diana of George of Montemayor.... 1598. _See_ MONTEMAYOR, Jorge de.
Catalogue of a Collection intitl’d Shakesperiana; comprehending All the several Editions of the Works of Shakespeare, old & new; divers rare old Editions of Writers, prose-men & verse-men; with a Variety of other Articles, chiefly such as tend to illustrate him;--made by his last Editor, E. C; and by him deposited in the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge, this eleventh Day of Iune in the Year 1779.
An alphabetical index to the books in the collection, in Capell’s own handwriting. At the end is inserted a leaf containing a list of ‘Quarto’s wanted’ to complete the collection of Shakespearian editions. Of this list thirty copies were privately printed by Steevens in 1780, and it was also reprinted in Hartshorne’s ‘Book Rarities of Cambridge’ in 1829. The list is not very accurate and there are many omissions. It inserts, moreover, as if in the collection, many editions which it never contained, Capell having intended to make the list of Shakespearian quartos complete by reference to other collections when his own failed. In the inside of the cover is the following inscription: ‘June 26. 1779. Ordered by the Master and Seniors, agreeably to the express Desire of M^r. Capel, that the whole Collection given by him be kept together in the same Class; and that no Manuscript or Book belonging to it be taken out of the Library on any Pretence whatever. J. Peterborough M C.’ There are also three documents inserted relating to articles in the collection. One of these runs ‘Effigies William Shakespeare Britanni ad fidem tabellæ unicæ manu Richard Burbage depictæ (circa annum, ut videtur, 1609) per R. Barret Londinensem quam exactissimè expressa anno 1759, curantibus David Garrick et Edward Capell. Capell’s Collection given to y^e College 1779’. Another is headed ‘Extract of a letter to M^r. Capell, that accompany’d a Cast from the face of Shakespear’s monument at Stratford, dated Dec^r. 13. 1780.’. The portrait and cast are both in the Library. The third is a list of certain books in Capell’s handwriting. There has also been added to the collection a fine medallion head of Capell, engraved by Bartolozzi after a plaster model taken from life by Roubilliac in 1750.
