Shelfmark
Gb.3.03
Additional shelfmark
[Copy 2]: Gb.3.04
Author
Uniform title
[Novum organum]
Title
Francisci de Verulamio, Summi Angliæ Cancellarii, Instauratio magna.
Varying form of title
Francisci de Verulamio, Summi Angliae Cancellarii, Instauratio magna
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Instauratio magna
Varying form of title
Running title: Nouum organum
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londini : Apud Ioannem Billium typographum regium., Anno 1620.
Physical description
[12], 172, 181-360; 37, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (Fo.)
Note
Actually part 2 of the Instauratio, called the Novum organum.
Note
The title page is engraved and signed: Sim: Pass: sculp:.
Note
Woodcut historiated initials and headpiece.
Note
The first leaf is blank.
Note
"Parasceue, ad historiam naturalem, et experimentalem" has divisional title and separate pagination and register.
Note
A reissue of the first edition; e3 is cancelled, and previously blank e4 is printed with errata and a colophon omitting Bonham Norton's name (which appears in STC 1162). In some copies e4r is numbered 37; in others it is unnumbered.
Note
Signatures: pi² [par.]⁴ A-C⁶ D-2S⁴ 2T⁶ a-d⁴ e⁴(-e3).
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 1163
Citation/references note
ESTC, S122428
Provenance
[Copy 1]: Booklabel recording bequest to Eton College by Nicholas Mann in 1754.
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on front pastedown.
Binding
[Copy 1]: 17th century dark brown calf; blind tooled triple fillet and circle roll border; gold tooled circle roll on board edges; rebacked in late 20th or early 21st century in brown calf; blind tooled triple fillet and single hatching on spine, with red morocco spine label; red sprinkled edges.
Binding
[Copy 2]: Contemporary limp vellum case; four sewn bands; faint red stain on edges.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1]: Previous shelfmark: Db.3.8.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2]: Lacks title-page and preliminaries. Large paper copy.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2]: Previous shelfmarks: Fc.3.12, Dp.2.13.
Subject
Science Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Pass, Simon van de, 1595? - 1647 engraver.
Added entry--name
Bill, John, ? - -1630 printer.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B46950