NMLP P-041297 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
Micrographia
Robert Hooke · John Martyn and James Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society, London · 1665
No book-club category applies. The dominant reprint tell is Henry Baker's Micrographia Restaurata: or, the Copper-Plates of Dr. Hooke's Wonderful Discoveries by the Microscope (London: printed for and sold by John Bowles, 1745), which reprints the original 1665 copperplates — with some plates omitted, some copied, captions added and plate numbers renumbered to fit the abridgement — in 33 engraved plates (4 folding). Its impressions are genuine strikes from Hooke's plates and are constantly mistaken for 1665 plates; the plate numbering, added captions and 1745 letterpress give it away. Also expect modern facsimiles and Dover-style reprints, and loose plates broken out of any of the three plate-printings (1665, 1667, 1745).
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-041297 for "Micrographia" by Robert Hooke (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041297, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).