English writer, poet, politician and ambassador (1568-1639)

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Sir Henry Wotton. Line engraving by W. Dolle.

Sir Henry Wotton. Line engraving, 1672, after P. Lombart.

Twenty portraits of famous men. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

A book of bachelors / by Arthur W. Fox.

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. [With his life by Izaak Walton] To several persons, not before printed / by ... Sir Henry Wotton.

De architectura libri decem. Cum notis castigationibus et observationibus Guilielmi Philandri integris, Danielis Barbari excerptis, et Claudii Salmasii passim insertis. Omni in unum collecta, digesta et illustrata a Joanne de Laet.

De architectura libri decem / Cum notis castigationibus & observationibus Guilielmi Philandri integris, Danielis Barbari excerptis, & Claudii Salmasii passim insertis ... Omni in unum collecta, digesta & illustrata a Joanne de Laet.

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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. [With his life by Izaak Walton] To several persons, not before printed / by ... Sir Henry Wotton.

De architectura libri decem. Cum notis castigationibus et observationibus Guilielmi Philandri integris, Danielis Barbari excerptis, et Claudii Salmasii passim insertis. Omni in unum collecta, digesta et illustrata a Joanne de Laet.

De architectura libri decem / Cum notis castigationibus & observationibus Guilielmi Philandri integris, Danielis Barbari excerptis, & Claudii Salmasii passim insertis ... Omni in unum collecta, digesta & illustrata a Joanne de Laet.