Shelfmark
Gb.3.06
Author
Title
Sylva sylvarum, or, A natural history, in ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added, the history natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life. Published after the authors death. by William Rawley, doctor in divinity, one of His Majesties Chaplains. Whereunto is added articles of enquiry, touching metals and minerals. And The new Atlantis. As also the life of the right honorable Francis Bacon, never added to this book before. Written by the right honorable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban.
Varying form of title
Life of the right honourable Francis Bacon
Varying form of title
New Atlantis.
Varying form of title
Articles of enquiry, touching metals & minerals
Varying form of title
History natural and experimental
Edition
The ninth and last edition, with an alphabetical table of the principal things contained in the ten centuries.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : printed by J[ohn]. R[edmayne]. for William Lee, and are to be sold by George Sawbridg [sic], Francis Tyton, Thomas Williams, John Martin, Thomas Vere, Randolph Taylor, Henry Broom, Edward Thomas, Thomas Passenger, Nevil Symmons, Robert Clavel, William Crook, and James Magnes; and other booksellers in London and Westminster., 1670.
Physical description
[20], 14, 31, [1], 215, [23], 221-227, [9], 64 p., [1] leaf of plates ; 31 cm. (Fo).
Note
Printer's name from Wing.
Note
With additional title page, engraved (A1v), signed "Tho: Cecill sculp:". The imprint reads "London printed for W: Lee and are to be sould at the Great Turks head next to the Mytre Tauerne in Fleetstreet anno 1669".
Note
"The life of the right honourable Francis Bacon" has separate dated title page, with imprint "printed by S.G. & B.G. for William Lee, ... 1670.".
Note
"New Atlantis. A vvork unfinished." has a divisional title page; begins pagination with quire A.
Note
"Articles of enquiry, touching metals & minerals" has separate title page with imprint "printed for VVilliam Lee ... 1669." with separate register; text begins on p. 221.
Note
"History natural and experimental" has separate title page, with imprint "printed for VVilliam Lee ... 1669."; with separate pagination and register.
Note
Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author.
Note
Includes index.
Note
One of two imprint variants of this edition.
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), B331A
Citation/references note
ESTC, R9057
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731, and contemporary engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College, both on front pastedown.
Provenance
Unidentified engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown: three bars wavy on a chief three roundels, with motto 'Vindica te tibi'.
Binding
Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century dark brown calf; blind tooled double fillet border, with inner panel of the same with blind tooled floral stamps at each corner; blind tooled swag and dot roll on board edges; blind tooled double fillet and swag and dot roll on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters and double fillet frame; five raised bands; red and brown sprinkled edges. Pastedowns loose, revealing older printed matter; see note below.
Copy-specific note
Four leaves of early sixteenth century printed material bound in, previously stuck beneath pastedowns. Text is Boethius's commentary on Aristotle's analytics, and includes printed diagrams in the margins, together with annotations in a sixteenth century hand. Leaves are B.ii, B.iii, [B.iv and B.vi] of the volume, numbered 192-196.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Dl.3.2, Dk.2.9.
Subject
Subject
Natural history Pre-Linnean works.
Added entry--name
Lee, William, active 1627 - 1665 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Redmayne, John, fl. 1659 - 1688 printer.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B46952