Secrets Reveal'd: or, an open entrance to the Shut-Palace of the King: Containing, the greatest treasure in chymistry, Never yet so plainly Discovered. / Composed by a most famous English-man, styling himself Anonymus, or Eyraeneus [sic] Philaletha Cosmopolita [pseud.]: Who, by Inspiration and Reading, attained to the Philosophers Stone at his Age of Twenty three Years, Anno Domini, 1645. Published for the Benefit of all English-men, by W.C. Esq. [i.e. William Cooper], a true lover of Art and Nature

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Secrets Reveal'd: or, an open entrance to the Shut-Palace of the King: Containing, the greatest treasure in chymistry, Never yet so plainly Discovered. / Composed by a most famous English-man, styling himself Anonymus, or Eyraeneus [sic] Philaletha Cosmopolita [pseud.]: Who, by Inspiration and Reading, attained to the Philosophers Stone at his Age of Twenty three Years, Anno Domini, 1645. Published for the Benefit of all English-men, by W.C. Esq. [i.e. William Cooper], a true lover of Art and Nature. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed by W. Godbid for William Cooper in Little St. Bartholomews, near Little-Britain, 1669.

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15 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves (first blank), 120 pages, 34 unnumbered leaves (last blank) ; 16.5cm (8vo)

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Notes

Note: Includes translation of Lange's dedicatory epistle and preface but, according to Cooper, the text is not translated from Lange's ed. but is based on an earlier English manuscript. Wilkinson (1965) believes that Cooper was mistaken and that the tract was originally composed in Latin, Cooper's manuscript being simply a translation.
Copy 1 Note: First and last (blank) leaves wanting. Collation: Π2 A8 a8 B-I8. Title page annotated: "T.H. Sursum Corda". Bound in brown calf over paper boards. Annotations in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century hands.
Copy 2 Note: Both blank leaves and last printed leaf wanting. Collation: Π2 A8 a8 B-H8 I6 (wanting I7-8). Title page mounted. With copious late seventeenth-century MS annotations throughout, some cropped. Bound in nineteenth-century boards, front cover and spine loose, revealing nineteenth-century catalogue used in binding.

References note

Wing S5288 (under Starkey)
Ferguson ii.192
ESTC R18468
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S5288

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