Sales catalogue 437: Maggs Bros

Date:
1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/21
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 437: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FAMOUS ENGLISH BOOK COLLECTORS. os Thomas Wotton (“‘ the English Grolier ’’). (1521-1589.) Thomas Wotton was the son of Sir Edward Wotton, treasurer of Calais, who was nominated by Henry VIII. as one of his executors. Thomas Wotton was in December 1547 employed in conveying treasure to his father at Calats and in 1551, om the death of his father, succeeded to his estates. In July 1573 he entertained Queen Elizabeth, at Boughton Malherbe. He was a person of ‘“ great learning, religion and wealth,’ and a patron of learning and protes- tantism. His Library (or the greater portion) passed into the Chesterfield Family, through the marriage of Catherine Wotton with Sir Henry Stanhope. The Chesterfield Library was recently sold. WITH THE ARMS OF THOMAS WOTTON, THE ‘‘ ENGLISH GROLIER.’’ 213 PLATO. LE TIMEE DE PLATON TRAITTANT DE LA NATURE DU MONDE, & de lV Home, & de ce qui concerne universelement tant l’ame que le corps des deux; translaté de grec en francois, avec l’exposition des lieux plus obscurs & difficiles par Loys le Roy. Ato. Paris, Michel de Vascosan; 1551. BOUND FOR THOMAS WOTTON IN LIGHT BROWN LEATHER, The SOE S.COVERED WITH DELICATELY INTERLACED BLACK EINES EDGED WITH GOLD AND WITH ARABESOUE: FOLIAGE SOOLED IN GOED, IN THE CENTRE OF THE DESIGN ON BOTH COVERS THE ARMS OF THOMAS WOTTON ARE STAMPED: IN OVER (lil, BACK CAREFULLY RESTORED), (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. VIII.). £210 * ** A REMARKABLY FINE AND GENUINE SPECIMEN, FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE GREAT ENGLISH Boox Couuector, THomas Wotton (1521-1589) wHo 1s sTyLeD “ Tay ENGLisH GROLIER.”
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