Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge
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Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Bibliography -- Catalogs; Trinity College (University of Cambridge). Library -- Catalogs
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.
8^o. (6¾ × 4¼). U. 5.
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.
YONG, BARTHOLOMEW.
Diana of George of Montemayor.... 1598. _See_ MONTEMAYOR, Jorge de.
MANUSCRIPTS.
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.
large 4^o. (11 × 9).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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