Shelfmark
Gb.3.05
Author
Title
Sylva sylvarum:, or, A naturall historie. : In ten centuries. / Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the authors death, by William Rawley doctor in divinitie, one of His Majesties chaplaines. Hereunto is now added an alphabeticall table of the principall things contained in the whole worke.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Sylva sylvarvm
Varying form of title
Other title: Sylva sylvarum or A naturall history
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed by John Haviland for William Lee, and are to be sold by Iohn Williams., 1635.
Physical description
[20], 260, [32], 47, [3] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. (engravings) ; 29 cm. (Fo.)
Note
Engraved frontispiece portrait, and additional engraved title-leaf dated 1631 and signed "Tho: Cecill sculp:": this title-leaf gives the address of W. Lee as "the Great Turks head next to the Mytre Tau[e]rn in Fleetstreet".
Note
Followed by "His Lo[rdshi]ps. usuall receipt for the gout ..." and, with a separate title-leaf and pagination, "New Atlantis. A worke unfinished ...".
Note
Includes index.
Note
Leaf g3 is a list, "Magnalia naturæ, præcipue quoad usus humanos".
Note
The last leaf is blank.
Note
Signatures: pi² A-2B⁶ 2C⁴ a-g⁴.
Citation/references note
ESTC, S106936
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 1172
Citation/references note
Gibson, R.W., Bacon, 174
Provenance
Booklabel recording bequest to Eton College by Nicholas Mann in 1754; inscription on second flyleaf: Nic. Mann Coll. Regal. Soc.
Binding
Contemporary mid brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet border; gold tooled single fillet on board edges; blind tooled double fillet on spine; black morocco spine label with title inked in gold; five raised spine; red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Db.3.9, Ef.4.4., Ch.6.21, Ao.2.11.
Copy-specific note
Calculations of area in roods, written in pen and pencil in a seventeenth century hand on rear flyleaf.
Subject
Natural history Pre-Linnean works.
Subject
Natural history Pre-Linnean works.
Subject
Utopias Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Cecil, Thomas, active 1630 - ? engraver.
Added entry--name
Haviland, John, fl. 1613 - 1638 printer.
Added entry--name
Lee, William, active 1627 - 1665 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Williams, John, ? - d. 1683 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B46951