Shelfmark
Gb.5.24 [Copy 1]
Additional shelfmark
Go.9.04 [Copy 2]
Author
Title
A lapidary: or, The history of pretious stones: with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with pretious stones. By Thomas Nicols, sometimes of Jesus-Colledge in Cambridge.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: History of pretious stones.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cambridge: : Printed by Thomas Buck, printer to the Universitie., 1652.
Physical description
[12], 239, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Note
Signatures: A⁴ (A1 blank) B² C-2I⁴.
Note
Text in English; the name of each of the stones described is also given in Hebrew, Greek and Latin.
Note
Woodcut headpieces, initials and printed marginalia.
Note
Includes one folded leaf with a letterpress diagram systematising types of precious stones.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R483403
Provenance
[Copy 1] Booklabel recording bequest to Eton College by Nicholas Mann in 1754.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Armorial bookplate of Eton College with initials "HR" for Henricus Rex on front pastedown.
Binding
[Copy 1] Contemporary English mid brown sheep; blind tooled double fillet border with second vertical line an inch from the spine; blind tooled dot roll on board edges; late 20th or early 21st rebacked spine, with blind tooled double fillet compartments; red sprinkled edges.
Binding
[Copy 2] ?17th-century brown sheepskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets to form a border, with a second vertical line an inch from the spine. Spine flat, decorated with gilt tools; titling now faded; modern shelf label ("Gaᵃ ...[illegible]"). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled brown. Endpapers of undecorated laid paper; two flyleaves on the upper end of the textblock, one at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Previous shelfmark: Dc.6.14.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Puncture marks on front flyleaf, following the outline of the letters on the title-page beneath.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Former ECL shelfmarks: Cp.6.25, Gaᵃ.7.4, Go.7.10.
Copy-specific note
Ms. signature on title page: "Gerard".
Subject
Precious stones Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Buck, Thomas printer.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
England Cambridge.
Language code
eng heb grc lat
Identifier
B47311