Shelfmark
Gb.6.29
Author
Title
Two treatises: : in the one of which, the nature of bodies; in the other, the nature of mans soule, is looked into: in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable soules..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed for Iohn Williams, and are to be sold at the Crown in S. Pauls Church-yard., MDCLXV. [1665]
Physical description
[48], 312, 301-429, [11], 136, 139-143, [1] p., p. 144, [1] p.; 20 cm. (4to.)
Note
Dedication signed "Kenelme Digby" and dated "the last of August 1644".
Note
First published by Blaizot in Paris in 1644. --ESTC.
Note
'The second treatise: declaring the nature and operations of mans soul' has separate title page on 2I2r dated 1645 and separate pagination, register is continuous.
Note
Printed marginalia.
Note
Head-pieces and initials.
Note
"Privelege du Roy" in French on p. 144.
Note
Signatures: A⁸ B⁴ *-3*⁴ A-T⁸ V⁴ 2A-2H⁸ 2I⁶ 3A-3G⁸ 3H-3L⁴.
Note
A variant has an extra preliminary quire (*)⁴ with caption title "To Sir Kenelme Digby upon his two incomparable treatises of philosophy" and signed "John Sergeant".
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), D1451
Citation/references note
ESTC, R10596
Provenance
Inscription on front flyleaf: John Courthope, Trin: Coll: Camb. Fell. Com. His booke 1691.
Provenance
Book label of John Reynolds on front pastedown, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Contemporary English mid brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet border with a second vertical line 1cm from joint; gold tooled dot roll on board edges; blind tooled double fillet on spine, with hatching at head and tail; red morocco spine label with gold tooled double fillet and title; four raised bands; red stained edges.
Copy-specific note
This copy not the variant with extra preliminary quire.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Fg.6.6.
Subject
Mind and body Early works to 1800.
Subject
Immortality Early works to 1800.
Subject
Soul Early works to 1800.
Subject
Science Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Williams, John, ? - d. 1683 publisher.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng fre
Identifier
B48134