Chirologia: or The naturall language of the hand· : Composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof. Whereunto is added Chironomia: or, the art of manuall rhetoricke. Consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's, exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life, and civill conversation. VVith types, or chyrograms: a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument. By J.B. Gent. philochirosophus.
Chirologia: or The naturall language of the hand· : Composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof. Whereunto is added Chironomia: or, the art of manuall rhetoricke. Consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's, exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life, and civill conversation. VVith types, or chyrograms: a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument. By J.B. Gent. philochirosophus.
Created/published
London : Printed by Tho. Harper, and are to be sold by Henry Twyford, at his shop in Fleetstreet, 1644.
Description
[28], 187, [5]; [16], 146, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. (copper-plate engravings) ; (8vo)
Dedication to part 1 signed: John Bulvver. In two parts, with frontispiece for each part engraved by William Marshall. With a final errata leaf. Part 2, "Chironomia: or, The art of manuall rhetorique" (Wing B5466) has separate dated title page, pagination and register. Part 2 was apparently never published separately. An imprint variant or possible reissue of the edition with "R. Whitaker" named as bookseller in imprint for part 1 and "Richard Whitaker" so named in imprint to part 2.
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), B5462 Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), B5466 English short title catalogue (ESTC), R14061
