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Subject(s)

• Alchemy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Related name

• Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692 [Browse]
• Thordarson Collection [Browse]

Printer

• Grismond, John [Browse]

Bookseller

• Brooke, Nathaniel [Browse]

Engraver

• Vaughan, Robert, active 17th century [Browse]
• Goddard, John, active 1645-1671 [Browse]
• Cross, Thomas, active 1632-1682 [Browse]

Contributor

• Norton, Thomas, active 1477 [Browse]
• Ripley, George, -1490? [Browse]
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 [Browse]
• Dastin, John [Browse]
• Andrewes, Abraham [Browse]
• Carpenter, Richard, 1575-1627 [Browse]
• Charnock, Thomas [Browse]
• Bloomefield, William [Browse]
• Kelly, Edward, 1555-1595 [Browse]
• Dee, John, 1527-1608 [Browse]
• Robinson, Thomas [Browse]
• Gower, John [Browse]
• Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? [Browse]
• Redman, D. D. W. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Calf bindings [Browse]

Notes

• Signatures: pi1 A-3S⁴ [$3 signed ( -A1, B3, C1, I2, O2, Q2, 2U2, 2X2, 2Y3, 3D2; 2Z3 signed Zx3)].
• Only this first part published.
• T.p. in red and black.
• Roman, italic and gothic type.
• Printer's device on t.p.
• Additional engraved frontispiece is signed "T. Cross sculp:"; most of the illustrations are signed "Ro: Vaughan. sculp:"; folded plate is signed "John Goddard sculpsit."
• Full page engravings on p. 12, 44, 51, 91, 102 and 210. Folded leaf of plate is bound-in facing p.117.
• The last four leaves contain a table of contents and glossary.
• Ex copy: Imperfect: leaf Rrr4, and folding diagram entitled "Here followeth the figure conteyning all the secrets of the treatise both great & small," wanting.

Binding note

Princeton copy 1 Modern full calf binding.

Contents

• The ordinall of alchimy / vvritten by Thomas Norton ...
• The compound of alchymie : a most excellent, learned, and worthy worke / written by Sir George Ripley ... conteining twelve gates
• Liber patris sapientiae
• Hermes bird
• The tale of the chanons yeoman / vvritten by our ancient and famous English poet, Geoffry Chaucer
• The worke of John Dastin
• Pearce the black monke upon the elixer
• The worke of Rich. Carpenter
• The hunting of the greene lyon / [Abraham Andrewes]
• The breviary of naturall philosophy / compiled by the unlettered scholar Thomas Charnock
• Bloomefields blossoms, or, The campe of philosophy / [William Bloomefield]
• Sir Edward Kelle's worke
• Sir Ed. Kelley concerning the philosophers stone, written to his especiall good freind [sic], G.S. gent.
• Testamentum Johannis Dee philosophi summi ...
• De lapide philosophorum / Thomas Robinsonus
• Experience and philosophy
• The magistery / W.B.
• Anonymi, or, severall workes of unkowne authors
• John Gower concerning the philosophers stone
• The vision of sr. George Ripley, chanon of Bridlington
• Verses belonging to an emblematicall scrowle / supposed to be invented by Geo: Ripley
• The mistery of alchymists / composed by Sir Geo: Ripley
• The preface prefixt to Sir Geo: Ripley's Medulla
• A short worke that beareth the name of the aforesaid author, Sir G. Ripley
• John Lydgate, monke of St. Edmundsbury, in his translation of the second epistle that King Alexander sent to his master Aristotle
• Anonymi
• The hermet's tale
• A description of the stone
• The standing of the glasse for the tyme of the putrifaction, & congelation of the medicine
• Aenigma philosophicum / D.D.W. [R]edman
• Fragments
• Annotations and discourses upon some part of the preceding vvorke.

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References

• ESTC R205904
• Wing (2nd ed., 1994) A3987
• Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica p. 31

Place name(s)

England London.

LCCN

15004720

OCLC

9458720

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