An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language / by John Wilkins, D.D. Dean of Ripon, and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosohopy--Early works to 1800.

Language and languages.

Writing--Early works to 1800.

Writing.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Early works to 1800.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Philosophy--Miscellanea--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

20 unnumbered pages, 454 pages, 158 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

s.ce H.a- reat thSc (3) 1668 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Sa: Gellibrand, and for John Martyn printer to the Royal Society, 1668.

Notes:

"An alphabetical dictionary, wherein all English words according to their various significations, are either referred to their places in the philosophical tables, or explained by such words as are in those tables" ([157] p. at end) has special title page.

Order-to-print leaf on [A]1v: Monday 13th. of April. 1668. At a meeting ... ordered, that the discourse presented ... be printed by the printer to the Royal Society. Brouncker Presi.

Two plates are letterpress tables.

Signatures: [A]² a-d² B-3M⁴, 3a⁴ ²3A-3T⁴(-3T4).

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full brown calf with blind-stamped double line fillet border on boards; author and title stamped in gold on spine; all edges red.

Cited in:

ESTC, R21115

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), W2196

OCLC:

4088592