Accession number
PML 195867.1
Creator
Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, 1707-1762
Published
[London : n.p., 1736?].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2013.
Notes
Issued without titlepage; the title is taken from the drop-head title.
Printed for private circulation by the Duchess of Buckingham.
One of the author's copies, interleaved and containing extra leaves with the author's holograph account of its publication. The British Library has another copy, also annotated by the author and bound in a similar style.
Interleaved.
Printed for private circulation by the Duchess of Buckingham.
One of the author's copies, interleaved and containing extra leaves with the author's holograph account of its publication. The British Library has another copy, also annotated by the author and bound in a similar style.
Interleaved.
Description
8 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
Ownership inscription of Lucy Boyle, 1 May 1756; previously in the libraries of Carl H. Pforzheimer and Gerald Slater; book label of J. O. Edwards.
Binding
Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
Classification
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