Accession number
PML 195571
Creator
Pemberton, Henry, 1694-1771.
Published
London : Printed by S. Palmer, 1728.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mr. & Mrs. Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr., and on the L. Colgate Harper Fund, 2011.
Notes
Dedication signed: Henry Pemberton.
Includes: A poem on Sir Isaac Newton, by R. Glover: pp. [13-27] at beginning.
Title vignette, historiated initials, headpieces and tailpieces (including portraits of Pythagoras, Democritus, Euclid and Archimedes) engraved by John Pine after Giuseppe Grisoni, also known as Pierre Joseph Grison.
Contains the first use of William Caslon's great primer roman; see James Mosley, "The early career of William Caslon," Journal of the Printing Historical Society 3 (1967): 66-81.
"A poem on Sir Isaac Newton" (pp. [13]-[27] signed: R. Glover.
"Subscribers names": pp. [29]-[50] at front.
Includes: A poem on Sir Isaac Newton, by R. Glover: pp. [13-27] at beginning.
Title vignette, historiated initials, headpieces and tailpieces (including portraits of Pythagoras, Democritus, Euclid and Archimedes) engraved by John Pine after Giuseppe Grisoni, also known as Pierre Joseph Grison.
Contains the first use of William Caslon's great primer roman; see James Mosley, "The early career of William Caslon," Journal of the Printing Historical Society 3 (1967): 66-81.
"A poem on Sir Isaac Newton" (pp. [13]-[27] signed: R. Glover.
"Subscribers names": pp. [29]-[50] at front.
Description
[50], 407 p., 12 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm. (4to)
Binding
Marbled boards, sheep spine, untrimmed and partly unopened. Green cloth box case.
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