A letter to T----- P----, Esq. from the author of Siris : containing some farther remarks on the virtues of tar-water, and the methods for preparing and using of it : to which is added, An answer to a supposed physician's Letter to the Right Reverend the Bishop of Cloyne, occasioned by his Lordship's treatise on the virtues of tar-water.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.

Contributor:

Jurin, James, 1684-1750.

Cooper, Mary, -1761, bookseller.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tar--Therapeutic use--Early works to 1800.

Tar.

Tar--Therapeutic use.

Penn Provenance:

Pilcher, Lewis Stephen, 1845-1934 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 28 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Letter to Thomas Prior

Fingerprint:

u.g- ist, s,s, tain (3) 1744 (R)

Place of Publication:

[London] : Dublin printed, London re-printed, for M. Cooper ..., MDCCXLIV [1744]

Notes:

Signatures: [A]² B-D⁴ E².

Attributed to George Berkeley. Cf. ESTC.

In this issue, the Latin quote "Non sibi, sed toti" is above the section of the title-page that begins: "To which is added ...".

Price from imprint: "[Price Six-pence.]".

With a half-title on first leaf.

Divisional title-page on p. 17: "Remarks on a letter to the Right Reverend the Bishop of Cloyne ...". This has been attributed to Thomas Prior, who probably wrote the "Answer to a Letter" in reply to James Jurin (Cf. G. Keynes, Bibl. of G. Berkeley, 96).

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Berkeley, George. Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of tar water / by the Right Rev. Dr. George Berkeley, Lord Bishop of Cloyne, and author of the The Minute Philosopher. [London] : Dublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, and C. Hitch ...; and C. Davis ..., MDCCXLIV [1744].

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full brown leather; boards blind tooled with floral design; five raised bands on spine with spine title Tar Water gold-stamped in one red panel; left board and front free endapaper detached; spine split.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Lewis Stephen Pilcher on front paste-down.

Cited in:

ESTC, T92782

Related Work:

Jurin, James, 1684-1750. Letter to the Right Reverend the Bishop of Cloyne.

Contains:

Prior, Thomas, 1681-1751. Answer to a supposed physician's letter.

OCLC:

300317407