Books and Manuscripts

Enfield, William
Institutes of Natural Philosophy, Theoretical and Experimental
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1785. First edition. 4to. xii, 353, (1); lacking half-title. Illustrated with 11 engraved folding plates. Full contemporary brown sprinkled calf, stamped in gilt, rebacked, original spine label laid down; marbled edges, matching marbled endpapers; book-plate of Dalton Hall Library on front paste-down, small Edw. G. Allen & Son bookseller's ticket on same; blank paper slip mounted over errata on p. xii, with contemporary manuscript on same “corrected”; scattered spotting to text; contemporary manuscript corrections throughout. 

Dedicated to his friend and fellow Unitarian, the chemist and philosopher Joseph Priestley, Unitarian Minister William Enfield published this work as a textbook for his students at the Warrington Academy. It features chapters on motion, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics, magnetism, electricity, and astronomy. A second edition was published in 1799.