or the History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales and the English Pale in Ireland.as also of the mint and mony.
with a clavis explaining some difficult words relating to mines, etc.
by Sir John Pettus
London, printed by H.L. and R.B., for Thomas Basset, 1670.
small folio, pp[xiv] 108, 6 [explanation of words], corrigenda leaf. 2 full-page plates, each with descriptive key to the verso. two text illustrations.
one or two spots of foxing, but generally clean, with some relevant pencil and ink marginalia. the title-page, with an old repaired tear, has been trimmed to the ruled border and mounted on slightly later paper.
the original frontispiece portrait has been replaced by a 1683 portrait engraved by R. White.
In a, probably 18thcentury, quarter calf binding, rubbed, but with no damage.
a 19th-century note to a preliminary blank provides the interesting, though as far as I can see, irrelevant information that this copy belonged to Francis Barlow, one of the Masters of Lunacy.
On the the opposite blank has been pasted a printed page that relates to mining legislation, taken from a 1694 volume of parliamentary acts
