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A short vievv of the life and death of George Villers, Duke of Buckingham. Written by Sir Henry Wotton, Knight, late provost of Eaton Colledge.
Short view of the life and death of George Villers, Duke of Buckingham
London : Printed for William Sheares, 1642.
[4], 28 p. : port. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Annotation on Thomason copy: "Octob: 22".
With head- and tail-pieces and initials.
Title page enclosed within narrow border.
Signatures: [A]² B-D⁴ E².
A variant of the edition lacking publication date in imprint.
With an engraved frontispiece portrait of George Villers (leaf A1 verso).
Thomason, E.124[1]
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), W3653
ESTC, R20156
Eton College Library book label.
Ms. inscription on front free endpaper: "d.d. E.L. Vaughan 1904".
?18th century calf binding; blind tooled fillets around the perimeter with additional fillet tooled parallel to the spine; gold tooled spine title.
Imperfect copy: portrait of George Villiers wanting.
Bound with: "Psychōdia platonica: or A platonicall song of the soul".
Sheares, William, ? - -1662 publisher.
Vaughan, E. L. (Edward Littleton) former owner.
England London.
B34163