Theatrum chemicum britannicum

Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica: p. 31
Folger bibliographic ID: 232130
ESTC number: R205904
Hogart, R.C. Alchemy: 29
Wing number: A3987
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Folger holdings ID: 280579

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quarto

General notes

"The first part." No more published Signatures: A-3Q⁴ 3R⁴(-3R4, blank?) 3S⁴ chi1 No. 281-284 skipped in pagination; nos. 289-292 repeated Title page printed in red and black; engraved vignette Most of the 11 engraved ill. by Robert Vaughan are within borders decorated with birds, insects, small animals and flowers. Some are signed in the plate. Woodcut tailpiece (two-headed dragon with sun and moon) appears on p. 212 and 379. Folded plate is engraved diagram, with title: Here followeth the figure conteyning all the secrets of the treatise both great & small. It is signed in the plate: John Goddard sculpsit. Engraved ill. on p. [437] signed in the plate: T. Cross sculp. Engraved horoscope of Edward Kelley, p. 479. Tailpieces, decorated initials, fleurons Final [10] p.: Contents--2 p. (3S1); Glossary--5 p. (3S2-3S4r); Errata--1 p. (3S4v); leaf of additional errata--1? p. (chi1). Many copies are wanting the final leaf of additional errata Contents (leaf 3S1) lists 31 entries, including: Ordinall of alchemie / Thomas Norton -- Compound of alchemie / George Ripley -- Chanon's yeoman's tale / Geoffry Chaucer -- Sir Edward Kelley's Worke -- Doctor John Dee's Testament -- Secreta secretorum / Iohn Lydgate Also available on microfilm and as an electronic resource

Extended title: Theatrum chemicum britannicum : containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language / faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, Esq., qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus
Alternate titles: Theatrvm chemicvm britannicvm

Alchemy

associated with: Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692
printer: Grismond, John
bookseller: Brooke, Nathaniel
printmaker: Cross, Thomas, active 1632-1682
printmaker: Vaughan, Robert, active 17th century
printmaker: Goddard, John, active 1645-1671