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 T.W. Master of Artes.

  • Walkington, Thomas, -1621
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1639
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Also known as

Optick glasse of humors
Touchstone of a golden temperature.
Philosophers stone to make a golden temper.
Glasse of humors.

Publication/Creation

London : Printed for [and by] I[ohn] D[awson] and are to be sould by L B[laiklock] at ye Suger loafe in fleetstreete next temple barr, 1639.

Physical description

26 unnumbered pages, 168 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations

Notes

T.W. = Thomas Walkington.
Partly in verse.
The title page is engraved.
Printer's and bookseller's names from STC.
Running title reads: The glasse of humors.
The last leaf is blank.
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

References note

STC (2nd ed.) 24969.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 944:12) s1999 miun s

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