The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. epitomiz'd. Vol. I[-IV]. By Richard Boulton, of Brazen-Nose College in Oxford. Illustrated with copper plates.
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
Category
Books
Date
1699 - 1700
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3055439
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v. : ill., port. ; 8vo. Imperfect: wanting vol. 2; vol. 3 wanting all plates. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front endpaper in each vol.: "Davenport Talbot" [probably William Davenport-Talbot (1764-1800)]. Manuscript bookseller's[?] code on front endpaper in each vol.: "4 vol: x: k:". Binding: late seventeenth or early eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn on five supports; five raised bands; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spines; brown leather gilt title label on spines 'Boyle Works Vol. I[-IV]'; red and brown sprinkled bookblock edges.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.
Makers and roles
Robert Boyle (1627-1691), author Boulton, Richard, editor Michael Vandergucht (Antwerp 1660 – London 1725), engraver (printmaker)