Swan, John. Speculum mundi· Or A glasse representing the face of the world ; shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation

Folger bibliographic ID: 167310
STC number: 23516
ESTC number: S118043
Folger call number: STC 23516 copy 1
Folger holdings ID: 161969

Bibliographic format

quarto

General notes

Dedication signed: John Svvan With an additional title page, engraved, with the printers' names in imprint, signed: Will: Marshall. sculpsit Signatures: [par.]⁴([par.]1+chi1,±[par.]3) 2[par.]⁴ A-3V⁴ 3X² Includes index The first leaf is blank except for woodcut ornament; the last leaf is blank [Par.]3 is a cancel Filmed copy at UMI Tract Supplement reel E2 a fragment, lacking all except engraved title page

Item information about Folger STC 23516 copy 1

cs10. Manuscript notes. Provenance: inscribed on front free endpaper: Samuel Edwards; on first leaf: William Cole; Henry F. Sewall copy

Extended title: Speculum mundi· Or A glasse representing the face of the world ; shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation

Natural history

author: Swan, John, -1671
printmaker: Marshall, William, active 1617-1650
former owner: Harmsworth, R. Leicester Sir, (Robert Leicester), 1870-1937