The young gentleman's astronomy, chronology, and dialling, containing such elements of the said arts or sciences, as are most useful and easy to be known. By Edward Wells, D. D. Rector of Cotesbach in Leicestershire. The third edition revised, and corrected, with additions.
Edward Wells (1667 - 1727)
Category
Books
Date
1725
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3230794
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 148, [8], 85, [8], 43 [i.e. 53], [1] p., 16, 9 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 8vo. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on front fly-leaf: [1] "J: Talbot é Coll: Oriel 1734" [i.e. John Talbot (1717?-1778), at Oriel College, Oxford]; [2] "Davenport Talbot" [probably William Davenport-Talbot (1764-1800)]. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled and plain calf; sewn on three supports; five raised bands; blind roll pattern on board edges; gilt title on brown leather label on spine; red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Edward Wells (1667 - 1727), author