Auction archive: Lot number 115

Salmon (William). Polygraphice, 8th edition, 1701

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Auction archive: Lot number 115

Salmon (William). Polygraphice, 8th edition, 1701

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Salmon (William). Polygraphice: or, the Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Vernishing, Japaning, Gilding, etc., 2 volumes in 1, 8th edition ('enlarged'), printed for A. and J. Churchill, and J. Nicholson 1701, engraved frontispiece, additional title-page, and 23 plates, letterpress title-page to each volume, slight toning, closed tear in plate 18, staining from perished tape-repair verso, a few trivial marks, without errata leaf, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked to style, small surface-abrasion to front board, wear to corners, 8vo (19.3 x 11.1 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: William Attree (18th-century ownership inscription to front free endpaper); Richard Shuttleworth Streatfeild (1805-51; bookplate), ESTC T149640. According to the title-page this eighth edition contains 'above five hundred considerable additions .... and the addition of almost five whole books, not in any of the former impressions'.

Auction archive: Lot number 115
Beschreibung:

Salmon (William). Polygraphice: or, the Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Vernishing, Japaning, Gilding, etc., 2 volumes in 1, 8th edition ('enlarged'), printed for A. and J. Churchill, and J. Nicholson 1701, engraved frontispiece, additional title-page, and 23 plates, letterpress title-page to each volume, slight toning, closed tear in plate 18, staining from perished tape-repair verso, a few trivial marks, without errata leaf, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked to style, small surface-abrasion to front board, wear to corners, 8vo (19.3 x 11.1 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: William Attree (18th-century ownership inscription to front free endpaper); Richard Shuttleworth Streatfeild (1805-51; bookplate), ESTC T149640. According to the title-page this eighth edition contains 'above five hundred considerable additions .... and the addition of almost five whole books, not in any of the former impressions'.

Auction archive: Lot number 115
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