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<dl><dd>No more published</dd>
<dd>T.p. printed in red and black; vignette</dd>
<dd>Contents (p. [1], final sequence of pagination) comprises 31 entries, including: Ordinall of alchemie / Thomas Norton. Compound of alchemie / George Ripley. Chanon's yeoman's tale / Geoffry Chaucer. Sir Edward Kelley's Worke. Doctor John Dee's Testament. Secreta secretorum / Iohn Lydgate</dd>
<dd>Most of the 11 engraved ill. by Robert Vaughan are within borders decorated with birds, insects, small animals and flowers. Some are signed in the plate. Woodcut tailpiece (two-headed dragon with sun and moon) appears on p. 212 and 379. Folded plate is engraved diagram, with title: Here followeth the figure conteyning all the secrets of the treatise both great &amp; small. It is signed in the plate: John Goddard sculpsit. Engraved ill. on p. [437] signed in the plate: T. Cross sculp. Engraved horoscope of Edward Kelley, p. 479. Tailpieces, decorated initials, fleurons</dd>
<dd>Frontispiece of Library's copy is engraved port. of Ashmole, with legend: Pub. by WRichardson June 1, 1797 York House, 31 Strand. Remargined at top and foredge</dd>
<dd>Includes errata, p. [8] and [9] at end</dd>
<dd>Hogart, R. Alchemy</dd>
<dd>Wing</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Alchemy</div>
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<dl><dd>Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692</dd>
<dd>Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682</dd>
<dd>Vaughan, Robert, 17th cent</dd>
<dd>Goddard, John, fl. 1645-1671</dd></dl></div>
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