Varieties, or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons : wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. : digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory / by David Person of Loughlands ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Person, David.

Contributor:

Badger, Richard, printer.

Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer.

Alchorne, Thomas, -1642?, bookseller.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc--Early works to 1800.

Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.

Science--Early works to 1800.

Science.

Philosophy--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy.

Natural history--Pre-Linnean works.

Natural history.

Combat--Early works to 1800.

Combat.

Penn Provenance:

Watson, Thomas (inscription)

Wetherhall, Thomas (inscription)

Megalinus, Johannes (autograph)

Physical Description:

52 unnumbered pages, 256, that is, 276 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 105 pages, 1 unnumbered page : 19 cm. (4to)

Other Title:

Varieties

Surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Richard Badger [and Thomas Cotes] for Thomas Alchorn ..., 1635.

Notes:

Second printer's name from STC.

"Cotes pr[inted] (a)-(e)⁴, Aa-Nn⁴ Oo²; Badger pr[inted] the rest, using R. Barker's materials"--STC.

Signatures: A⁴ [par.]² (a)-(e)⁴ B-D⁸ (*)² E-G⁸ (2*)² H-N⁸ (3*)² O-R⁸ S⁴ 2A⁴(-2A1+'2A1.2') 2B-2N⁴ 2O².

Leaf 2A1 is cancelled by (2A1-2), which includes a dedication to Thomas Lord Binning. Cf. ESTC.

The second through fifth books each has a separate dated title page; the fifth book has separate pagination, but signatures are continuous with the previous four.

Variant has "Loghlands" in place of "Loughlands" in last line of title. Cf. ESTC.

Title within woodcut border; woodcut title vignettes, initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 516:8 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Library copy is variant with "Loghlands" in place of "Loughlands" in last line of title.

Library copy imperfect: leaves G8 and N8 (blanks?) wanting; leaves 2F3-4 misbound before leaf 2F1.

Bookseller's printed description pasted to leaf A1v; folded leaf with bookseller's ms. description in ink and pencil tipped in before leaf N3; ms. inscriptions in ink on first leaf and t.p. verso; marginal ms. note in pencil about misbinding of gathering F on leaf F1.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 19781

ESTC S114573

OCLC:

54136632