Mercury, or, The secret and swift messenger : shewing, how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance / by the Right Reverend Father in God, John Wilkins, late Lord Bishop of Chester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.

Contributor:

Cryptology Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cryptography--Early works to 1800.

Cryptography.

Genre:

Advertisements -- England -- London -- 17th century.

Penn Provenance:

Mendelsohn, Esther Jastrow (donor)

Mendelsohn, Charles J. (Charles Jastrow), 1880-1939 (donor)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 172 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 17 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The second edition.

Other Title:

Mercury

Secret and swift messenger

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Rich. Baldwin, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-lane, 1694.

Notes:

Title enclosed within double line rule border.

Edition statement precedes statement of responsibility on title page.

Bookseller's advertisements: p. [1]-[4] at end.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: frontispiece (portrait) and p. [1]-[2] (half title) wanting.

Cited in:

Wing W2203

Galland, J.S. Historical and analytical bibl. of the lit. of cryptology, 201

Shulman, D. Annotated bibl. of cryptography, I, p. 11

OCLC:

185063328