Experiments and considerations touching colours : first occasionally written, among some other essays, to a friend : and now suffer'd to come abroad as the beginning of an experimental history of colours / by the Honourable Robert Boyle ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Contributor:

Herringman, Henry, -1704, bookseller.

Boyle Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color--Early works to 1800.

Color.

Colors--Early works to 1800.

Colors.

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Baskerville, Charles, 1870-1922 (inscription) (Boyle Collection copy 1)

Estabrook, W. L. (inscription) (Boyle Collection copy 1)

Smith, Edgar Fahs, 1854-1928 (inscription) (Boyle copy 1)

Harned, Herbert S. (Herbert Spencer), 1888-1969 (donor) (inscription) (Boyle Collection copy 2)

Stringer, Ed. (inscription) (Boyle Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered pages, 423 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Short account of some observations made by Mr. Boyle about a diamond that shines in the dark

Fingerprint:

ana- hahe edh: alVo (3) 1664 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Henry Herringman ..., MDCLXIV [1664]

Language Note:

Some quotes in Latin.

Contents:

Pt. 1. The experimental history of colours begun.

pt. 2. Of the nature of whiteness and blackness.

pt. 3. Concerning promiscuous experiments about colours.

Notes:

Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ b⁴ B-2D⁸ 2E⁴.

Title in red and black.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Errata on p. [40], first group.

Includes bibliographical references.

Separate work (p. [389]-423) has special t.p.: A short account of some observations made by Mr. Boyle about a diamond that shines in the dark : first enclosed in a letter written to a friend, and now together with it annexed to the foregoing treatise, upon the score of the affinity betwixt light and colour. London : Printed for Henry Herringman, 1664.

Local Notes:

Boyle Collection copy 1 and 2 are from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection, both with a pictorial bookplate on front pastedown that reads "The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection University of Pennsylvania"; copy 2 was given to the University of Pennsylvania by Dr. Herbert S. Harned.

Boyle Collection copy 1 imperfect: illustrated plate is wanting.

Boyle Collection copy 1 quarter bound in parchment over speckled paper boards; all edges speckled red. Text block is detached from binding.

Boyle Collection copy 1 has the ownership inscriptions "Chas. Baskerville", "WL Estabrook", and "to Edgar F. Smith in 1923" on recto of front free endpaper.

Boyle Collection copy 2 bound in full brown leather; four raised bands on spine; brief title stamped in gilt on a red leather label in second spine panel; all edges speckled brown.

Boyle Collection copy 2 has the ownership inscription of Herbert S. Harned ("Herbert S. Harned 222 Allen Lane Mt. Airy, Phila. Pa.") in black ink on recto of front free endpaper; inscription of Ed Stringer ("Ed. Stringer no. 24") on verso on front free endpaper in brown ink.

Boyle Collection copy 2 has an ms. bibliographic note on rear pastedown in brown ink.

Cited in:

ESTC, R19422

Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 57

Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B3967

Contains:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. Short account of some observations made by Mr. Boyle about a diamond that shines in the dark.

OCLC:

3625193