The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; epitomiz'd. Vol. III. By Richard Boulton, of Brazen-Nose College in Oxford. Illustrated with copper plates.
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
Category
Books
Date
1700
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3055439.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. 3 ([16], 552, [8] p., [5] leaves of plates). Imperfect: wanting all plates. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front endpaper: "Davenport Talbot" [probably William Davenport-Talbot (1764-1800)]. Manuscript bookseller's[?] code on front endpaper: "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 spine; brown leather gilt title label on spine 'Boyle Works Vol. III'; 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