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A new method of making common-place-books

6 unnumbered pages, v, 2 unnumbered pages, 2-60 pages ; 17 cm (8vo) · The two pages preceding p. 2 comprise a double-page table entitled "The index", printed in red and black · Pp. 15, 17, 19 and 23 are blank · "Monsieur Le Clerc's character of Mr. Lock's method, with his advice about the use of common-places": p. i-v · "Epistle. Mr. Lock's letter to Monsieur Toinard, containing a new and easier method of making common-place books, an exact index of which may be made in two pages": p. 2-24 · "A letter of Doctor John Wallis to Robert Boyle, Esq; concerning the said doctors essay of teaching a person dumb and deaf to speak, and to understand a language; together with the success thereof, made apparent to His Majesty, the Royal Society, and the University of Oxford": p. 25-40 · "The following account was writ by the late ingenuous Mr. Oldenburg, Secretary of the Royal Society": p. 41-43 · "A letter of Dr. John Wallis ... to Mr. Thomas Beverly, concerning his method for instructing persons deaf and dumb": p. 44-60 · Translation of 'Méthode nouvelle de dresser des recueils,' orig. publ. in 'Bibliothèque universelle et historique de l'année 1686', T. 2, 315-340. Based on a letter in Lati

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