Izaak. The Lives of Doctor John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Knight, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Doctor Robert Sanderson.

Name: Izaak. The Lives of Doctor John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Knight, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Doctor Robert Sanderson.
Price: 800 GBP
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Author: WALTON

by WALTON

£800 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

WALTON, Izaak. The Lives of Doctor John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Knight, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Doctor Robert Sanderson. ~i~London: Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons. 1904. Folio, sometime bound in full red polished calf, spine panelled and lettered in gilt, boards with gilt roll border enclosing two gilt line panels, gilt corner pieces, watered silk doblures, marbled paper endpapers, illustrated with six portraits engraved and printed by Messrs Walker and Cockerell, title-page and initial letters designed by Mr D. Clayton Calthorp. Printed in red and black A little light offsetting from tissue guards to portraits, otherwise a near fine, largely unopened, copy in a handsome binding. Limited edition of 200 numbered copies choicely printed at the Chiswick Press. "Walton also made significant contributions to seventeenth-century life-writing throughout his career. His leisurely labours as a biographer seem to have grown out of his devotion to angling. It was probably as an angler that he made the acquaintance of Sir Henry Wotton, but it is clear that Walton had more than a love of fishing and a humorous temper to recommend him to the friendship of the accomplished ambassador. At any rate, Wotton, who had intended to write the life of John Donne, and had already corresponded with Walton on the subject, left the task to him. Walton had already contributed an elegy to the 1633 edition of Donne's poems, and he completed and published the life, much to the

Binding: Hardcover

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