Essays on the microscope
Subtitle: containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes : a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar habits, and oeconomy : an account of the various species and singular properties of the Hydrae and Vorticellae: a description of three hundred and seventy-nine animalcula, with a concise catalogue of interesting objects : a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts when under the microscope
By: by George Adams ...
Contributors: Duché, Thomas Spence, 1763-1790, illustrator; Milne, T., active 1787, illustrator; Lodge, John, -1796, engraver; Goodnight, active 1787, engraver; Laurie, Robert, 1755-1836, engraver; Wigley, James, 1700-1782, engraver; Bonles, T., active 1787, engraver; Newman, Robert, former owner; Hindmarsh, Robert, 1759-1835, printer; Burndy Library
Publisher: Prined for the author, by Robert Hindmarsh ... and sold by the author, at his shop, Tycho Brahe's Head, no. 60, Fleet-Street
Published: 1787
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 724
Subjects: Microscopes; Early works to 1800; Microorganisms; Insects; Microscopy; Animalcules
Other titles: Adams, Essays on the microscope; Microscopical essays
Notes: The frontispiece is signed: T.S. Duché pinxit. The plates were drawn by T. Milne or R. Laurie, and engraved by Jn. Lodge, Goodnight, J. Wigley, or Bonles.

Diamond-shaped tail-pieces featuring embedded lines of text: R. Hindmarsh, printer, 1787.

The folded plates are numbered 1-31, plus "26A." Double plate numbers on single leaves (each counted as one leaf of plates) include: 2A-B; 7A-B; 23A-B; and 24A-B.

Page 451 is misnumbered as 154; page 696 is misnumbered as 692.

Press figures.

Errata on p. 724.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xv-xviii) and index.

Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 5

ESTC (online) T8505

Also reproduced on microfilm. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, Inc., 1986. The Eighteenth Century ; reel 6015, no. 02.

SCDIRB copy 39088001888080 has the ownership stamp of Robert Newman, Old Charlton, Kent on the verso of the frontispiece. There are a few brief pencilled annotations in the margins.

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.

SCDIRB copy has an old gilt-tooled full leather binding with raised bands, red spine label, faux marbled endpapers, and a black silk ribbon page marker.