| Administrative History | William Wallace (1768 - 1843) was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh from 1819 to 1838 and taught Duncan Farquharson Gregory (1813 - 1844) |
| Custodial History | The volume was owned and paginated by a 'W. Wallace', but does not appear to have been written by him. The title page bears his signature and a short annotation in his hand: 'Newton's Principia came out in the end of 1687.' |