Polygraphice: or, the arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c. In two volumns [sic].... The eighth edition. Enlarged, ... By William Salmon, M.D (Vol 2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Polygraphice: or, the arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c. In two volumns [sic].... The eighth edition. Enlarged, ... By William Salmon, M.D (Vol 2)
Classmark: Bedford Collection G025
Creator(s): Salmon, William (1644-1713)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: printed for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black Swan in Paternoster-Row.. And J. Nicholson, at the King's Arms in Little-Britain
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1701
Language: English
Size and medium: 2v. (32,224,301-939,[1]p.), XXIII plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/732457
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019936097405181
Description
The text and register are continuous.
With an additional titlepage engraved, engraved frontispiece portrait, errata on last page of postscript of vol 1, and 2 pages of advertisements [begins final page 939] at end of vol 2.
Title page to vol. 2 omitted from pagination.
Bedford Collection copy G025 has 32 pages of preliminaries, not 36 as in ESTC record.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G025: Typed letter from bookseller, 3 Bevendean Crescent, Brighton dated 5 November 1934 to E Van Dam, bookseller, confirming that this item was unsold and [now] priced £3-0-0, has the bookplate of the Earl of Guildford; loose excerpt from Quaritch, Art and Architecture Catalogue. No. 1357, 10/07 for another copy of this title, No. 77, in volume 1.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G025 (2 vols): contemporary mottled calf, blind tooled, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G025: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on rear pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HA/24 (2 vols). Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Earl of Gilford Wroxton Abbey [i.e. Lord North, Earl of Guilford, Wroxton Abbey, which Earl?, see Franks Bequest 22017].
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