Shelfmark
Gb.6.07
Author
Title
Experiments and considerations touching colours. : First occasionally written, among some other essays, to a friend; and now suffer'd to come abroad as the beginning of an experimental history of colours. / By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London ,: Printed for Henry Herringman at the Anchor in the lower walk of the New-Exchange., MDCLXIV [1664].
Physical description
[40], 423, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates ; 17 cm. (8vo.)
Note
Title page printed in red and black.
Note
"A short account of some observations made by Mr. Boyle about a diamond that shines in the dark. First enclosed in a letter written to a friend, and now together with it annexed to the foregoing treatise, upon the score of the affinity betwixt light and colours" has separate dated title page with ornament on leaf 2C3r; pagination and register are continuous.
Note
Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ b⁴ B-2D⁸ 2E⁴.
Note
Errata on leaf b4v.
Note
Head- and tail-pieces, initials, marginal notes.
Citation/references note
Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B3967
Citation/references note
Fulton, J. Boyle, 57
Citation/references note
ESTC, R19422
Provenance
Inscription on title-page: E libris Alex: Cheeke e CCC Oxon disr: 1664. Alexander Cheeke matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1662, and died there in 1664. See Foster, Alumni Oxonienses.
Provenance
Book label of John Reynolds on front flyleaf, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Late 17th century mid brown calf, lightly sprinkled; blind tooled triple fillet border, with second vertical line an inch from spine; a fleuron of three feathers used at each corner of the panels; blind tooled dot roll on board edges; binder's waste (contents list to a legal text?) used as pastedowns; possibly rebacked; blind tooled single fillet in groups of three lines on spine; brown morocco spine fillet with gold tooled double fillet and title; red and blue sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Ff.7.16.
Subject
Color Early works to 1800.
Subject
Colors Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Herringman, Henry, ? - 1704 publisher.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B47898