Mercury, or The secret and svvift messenger: shewing, how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance.

All titles

• Mercury, or The secret and svvift messenger: shewing, how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance.
• Mercury, or The secret and swift messenger Secret and swift messenger

People / Organizations

• John Norton ("printed by")
• Iohn Maynard ("printed for")
• John Wilkins (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by I. Norton, for Iohn Maynard, and Timothy Wilkins, and are to be sold at the George in Fleetstreet, neere Saint Dunstans Church, 1641.

Added name

Kinnaston, Francis, Sir, 1587-1642.

Publication year

1641

ESTC No.

R1665

Grub Street ID

64470

Description

[16], 48, 65-80, 83-98, 81-128, 127-180 [i.e. 170], [4] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 8⁰

Note

Preface signed: I.W., i.e. John Wilkins.

Includes commendatory poems by Sir Francis Kynaston and three others.

First leaf and last 2 leaves are blank.

P. 170 misnumbered 180.