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.
Edward Wells (1667 - 1727)
Category
Books
Date
1725
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3246598
Summary
Bibliographic description
The third edition revised, and corrected, with additions.. [8], 148, [8], 85, [8], 43 [i.e. 53], [1] p., 16, 9 leaves of plates (some folded) :. ill. ;. 8vo. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Provenance: inscription in ink '[g/n?]' on front pastedown; inscription in ink on flyleaf, struck through (indecipherable). Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards; gold tooled double border; five raised bands; simple gold tooling on spine; brown leather spine label with 'Wells's Astronomy'; blind tooled board edges; red sprinkled book block edge.
Makers and roles
Edward Wells (1667 - 1727)