Salmon (William) Polygraphice: or, The Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Vernishing, Japaning, Gilding &c., 2 vol. in 1, eighth edition, engraved portrait, additional allegorical title and 23 plates, contemporary ink inscription "Robt. Phaire Esq. of Grange" to title, lightly soiled, a few stains, tear/hole to Bb3 with slight loss, small hole to plates 2 & 3 not affecting image, plate 3 bound upside down, plate 22 a little stained, engraved bookplate of John Colclough, later calf, red roan label, a little rubbed, upper cover spotted, 8vo, for A. & J.Churchill...and J.Nicholson, 1701.

⁂ Robert Phaire of Grange, presumably a descendant of Colonel Robert Phaire (?1619-1682), an officer in the Irish Protestant army and later the New Model Army and a regicide. He was one of the three officers to whom the warrant for the execution of Charles I was addressed, but he escaped severe punishment at the Restoration through having married the daughter of Sir Thomas Herbert (1606-1682). He became a Muggletonian in 1662 and died at the Grange, near Cork.