Some considerations touching the style of the Holy Scriptures;. extracted from several parts of a discourse, concerning divers particulars belonging to the Bible, written divers years since to a friend:
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
Category
Books
Date
1675
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3158638
Summary
Bibliographic description
[44], 254, [2] p. : port. ; 8vo. Running number: 3003. Imperfect: wanting portrait. Quire P wrongly folded, with P3 and P4 preceding P1, and with manuscript notes at the foot of these leaves explaining the reading order. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "bm". Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. Sheet P. wrong folded" [i.e. catalogue code and note of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; and at foot of leaf: "α'." [i.e. alpha = Greek number 1]. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled sheepskin; double blind fillet border, with quarter double blind fillet; blind roll pattern on board edges; recessed cords; blind fillets on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)