| Description |
[539] p. 18 cm. |
| Note |
Signatures: 8°: *⁸(-*1); A-B⁸ D⁸ E1; ²A-2B⁸ 2C⁴; ³A-B⁸ χ² [$4 (-*2, A1, ²G1, S2, X1, 2B4, ³A1) signed; misprinting ²G3 as ‘O3’]. *1 absent (blank?); title page on *2. |
|
Paginations: 270 leaves: pp. [14]; [2], 1-44 [45-46] 47 [48]; ²[2], 1-94 [95-96] 97-188 [189-190] 191-220 [221-222] 223-272 [273-274] 275-318 [319-320] 321-378 [379-380] 381-389 [390-392]; ³[2], 1-10, [2]; ⁴[2], 1-28, [2]; ⁵[4], 1-25 [26-28], [4] [misprinting ²14 as ‘41’] |
|
Added t.p. engraved. |
|
Engraved title bound before letterpress title. |
|
Edited by W. Cooper. |
|
Printer’s advertisement bound at end (signature χ). |
|
Bookplate of the Earl of Macclesfield’s South Library dated 1860 with pressmark 183. A. 29. |
| Contents |
An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's epistle to King Edward IV. 1677.--An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's preface. 1677.--An exposition upon the first six gates of Sir George Ripley's compound of alchemie. 1677.--Experiments for the preparation of the sophick mercury.--A breviary of alchemy; or, A commentary upon Sir George Ripley's recapitulation. 1678.--An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's vision.--Porta prima. De calcinatione philosophica [a chapter from Fona chymeæ philosophiæ, omitted in the Birrius ed.] (2 p. at end). |
| Subject(s) |
Ripley, George, d. 1490?
|
|
Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
|
| Alternate Author |
Cooper, William, ed.
|
|
