A supplement to the Athenian oracle: being a collection of the remaining questions and answers in the old Athenian mercuries. Intermixt with many cases in divinity, history, philosophy, mathematicks, love, poetry, never before publish'd. To which is prefix'd the history of the Athenian Society, and an essay upon learning. By a member of the Athenian Society.
John Dunton (1659-1733)
Category
Books
Date
1710
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3222679
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 487, [15] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 7533. Shelved and uniform as a set with 'The Athenian oracle' (London, 1706-1716). Frontispiece plate bound following title page, initial leaf with key to plate bound following frontispiece. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf of first vol. in set: "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