NMLP P-041273 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

Opticks

Isaac Newton · Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, London · 1704

No book-club issue applies to a 1704 quarto. The traps are the 1706 Latin Optice, the enlarged 18th-century English editions (Innys and successors), 19th-century reprints, the 1931 Bell/Whittaker reprint of the fourth edition and its Dover successors, and CD-ROM/facsimile reproductions of the 1704 text — all of which reproduce the words but none of which is the 1704 sheets. Plates are frequently extracted and sold separately, so a 1704 volume must be collated for all 19 folding plates.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-041273 for "Opticks" by Isaac Newton (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041273, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).