1740 THE LIVES OF THE PROFESSORS OF GRESHAM COLLEGE

1740 The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College: to which is prefixed the Life of the Founder Sir Thomas Gresham. with an Appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, written by the Professors, with other Papers serving to illustrate the Lives. By John Ward, Professor of Rhetoric in Gresham College and F. R. S. Printed by John Moore in Bartholomew Lane for the author. Half calf binding with marbled boards, leather in good & shiny condition, boards a touch rubbed in places, rebound with fresh endpapers, pages uncut to edges & with the odd spot. Lacks frontispiece portrait. Gresham College was founded by benefactor Thomas Gresham according to his will, and was the first institution of higher learning in London, reading seven subjects - divination, music, rhetoric, physics, law, astronomy and geometry. Folio.