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A free discourse against customary swearing : and a dissuasive from cursing / By the late Honourable Robert Boyle ; published by John Williams, D.D.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection Boyle 540.4 B699.32
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swearing--Early works to 1800.
- Swearing.
- Blessing and cursing--Early works to 1800.
- Blessing and cursing.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Harvard College Library (bookplate) (stamp) (Boyle Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 131 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 30 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered plate : portrait ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Dissuasive from cursing
- Fingerprint:
- e,ns ofut eda) sibu (3) 1695 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed by R.R. for Thomas Cockerill, Senr and Junr ..., MDCXCV [1695]
- Notes:
- Signatures: A-B⁸ C-X⁴.
- The title page is a cancel.
- The portrait is signed: R:W: sculp., i.e. Robert White.
- "A dissuasive from cursing" has separate divisional title page and pagination; register is continuous. This is probably not by Boyle. Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat. and Fulton, J.F. A bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle, p. 137.
- Title within double-ruled border.
- Factotum initial; printed marginal notes.
- Errata at foot of X2v.
- The last two leaves contain a table of contents and advertisements.
- Local Notes:
- Boyle Collection copy is from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection, with a pictorial bookplate tipped on to front free endpaper that reads "The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection University of Pennsylvania." Below is a Harvard College Library bookplate, and a Harvard Library stamp on verso of t.p.
- Boyle Collection copy imperfect: plate and final leaf X4 wanting.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, R27221
- Fulton, J.F. A bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle, 197
- Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B3978
- OCLC:
- 228725983
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