The Athenian oracle: being an entire collection of all the valuable questions and answers in the old Athenian mercuries. Intermix'd with many cases in divinity, history, philosophy, mathematicks, love, poetry, never before published. To which is added in each volume, alphabetical tables for the speedy finding of any questions. By a member of the Athenian Society. In three volumes. ... The third edition corrected.
John Dunton (1659-1733)
Category
Books
Date
1706 - 1716
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3222676
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. ; 8vo. Running number: 7533. Shelved and uniform as a set with 'A supplement to the Athenian oracle' (London, 1710). Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "R: [or B:] 4 vols". Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled calf; sewn on three supports; five raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gilt title on brown leather label and gilt vol. number on spines. Brown sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
John Dunton (1659-1733) Richard Sault (d.1701) Samuel Wesley (bap.1662 - 1735) Athenian Society, London