Shelfmark
Gh.7.03
Author
Uniform title
[Manière de bien penser. English]
Title
The art of criticism : or, the method of making a right judgment upon subjects of wit and learning. Translated from the best edition of the French, of the famous Father Bohours [sic], by a person of quality. In four dialogues.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London :: printed for D. Brown, at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; and A. Roper, at the Black Boy against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleestreet,, 1705.
Physical description
[8], 176; 120, [16] p. ; 19 cm. (8⁰)
Note
Issued in two volumes? - With an index.
Note
A variant has "Boubours" instead of "Bohours" in the title.
Note
Pages 34, 120, 121, 145 of the first pagination sequence misnumbered 4, 207, 112, 1045.
Note
Signatures: A⁴ B-M⁸ 2A-2H⁸ 2I⁴.
Citation/references note
ESTC T115981
Provenance
Booklabel recording donation to Eton College from John Reynolds in 1751.
Binding
18th-century mottled calf; triple frame with double bind fillet, small tools at the corners and small decorative blind fillet; five raised bands on spine; gold titling on spine; handwritten title on fore edge; red sprinkled edges; two additional flyleaves on front and three on back of book.
Copy-specific note
Previously Fi.5.24 and Gh.7.04.
Copy-specific note
This copy has 'Bohours' in the title.
Subject
Criticism Early works to 1800.
Subject
Literature History and criticism Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Browne, Daniel, 1647 - 1727 printer.
Added entry--name
Roper, Abel, 1665 - 1726 printer.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50382