The optick glasse of humors or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper. : Wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth and their externall intimates laid open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge, of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. by [sic] T.W. Master of Artes.
1631
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The optick glasse of humors or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper. : Wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth and their externall intimates laid open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge, of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. by [sic] T.W. Master of Artes.
Created/published
Oxford : Printed by W[illiam]. T[urner]. and are to be sold by M[ichael]. S[parke, London]. at the Blew Bible in greene Arbor, [1631?]
Description
[24], 168 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; (8vo)
Associated name
Walkington, Thomas, -1621, author.
Note
T.W. = Thomas Walkington.
Partly in verse.
Title page is engraved.
Printer's and bookseller's names supplied and publication date conjectured by STC.
Running title reads: The glasse of humors.
Signatures: pi1 [par.]⁸ A-K⁸ L⁸(-L8).
Partly in verse.
Title page is engraved.
Printer's and bookseller's names supplied and publication date conjectured by STC.
Running title reads: The glasse of humors.
Signatures: pi1 [par.]⁸ A-K⁸ L⁸(-L8).
ESTC staff note
L copy filmed on UMI "Tract supplement" reel E1 (Harl. 5921[271]): title page only.
Signatures from DFo.
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2018.Form and Function: The Genius of the Book.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 24968
Madan, F. Oxford books, I, p. 160-1
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S119410
Madan, F. Oxford books, I, p. 160-1
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S119410
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Annotations.
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Great Britain -- England -- Oxford.
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STC 24968
Folger-specific note
cs146. Faded MS. notes on verso of engr. plate. Spine is dated "[1598]" in gilt at tail. Leaf K3 is damaged and repaired, affecting text. Provenance: Folger purchase from Bangs sale, November 20, 1902, lot 600