Memoria Technica: Or, A New Method of Artificial Memory, GREY (Richard).

Applied to, and exemplified in Chronology, History, Geography, Astronomy. Also Jewish, Grecian, and Roman Coins, Weights, and Measures, &c. With Tables proper to the respective Sciences, and Memorial Lines adapted to each Table. The Third Edition, Corrected and Improved.

Title printed in red and black. Woodcut ornaments,

8vo. [179 x 115 x 20 mm]. [2]ff, xvi, [viii], 159, [29] pp. Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, the coves with a gilt double fillet border. The spine divided into six panels by raised bands flanked with gilt double fillets, red sprinkled edges. (Lacking front free endleaf and rear pastedown, a little worn around the edges).

London: printed [by William Bowyer] for John Stagg in Westminster Hall; and sold by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch in Pater Noster Row, F. Clay, and D. Brown without Temple Bar, 1737

A few marks and signs of use but a very good copy. Early ink ownership inscription at the head of the title "Morshead. E. Coll. Exon" - i.e. an undergraduate named Morshead from Exeter College, Oxford.

Previously published in 1730 and 1732. 12 editions were published by 1799, including Dublin, Exeter and Wolverhampton printings.

Stock no. ebc7952