WALTON, Izaak.

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The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson. A choice copy, handsomely bound and abundantly extra-illustrated, the six original plates supplemented with 41 others dating from the 17th to the 19th century; 12 of the plates have additional hand colouring. The plates are chiefly portraits of the subjects and of the major clerical and royal figures of their time, alongside views of their estates.Walton's collected biographies of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, and Herber were first published in their finished state in 1675, with Sanderson added in 1678. They are key early sources for the lives of the men, and were popular throughout the 17th to the 19th centuries.A list of the extra plates is available on request.

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