The theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things. The two last books, concerning the burning of the world, and concerning the new heavens and new earth

Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715 · 1697 · London : Printed by R.N. [i.e. Roger Norton] for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop's-Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard · 1 picture

Thomas Burnet's 1697 natural philosophy treatise on the earth's origin and future, printed in London by Roger Norton for Walter Kettilby and dedicated to King William, opens here with a dedication page of close-set roman type. The picture is a woodcut historiated initial, a letter M set in a boxed frame of interlaced scrollwork and foliage, which a designer could borrow for an ornamental drop cap in a historical or antiquarian publication.

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