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8vo, 208 x 127 mms., pp. 318. BOUND WITH: Wesley, John. Primitive Physic: or, an Easy and Natural Method of Curing most Diseases. Burslem: Printed by J. Tregortha, 1812. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 103 [104 blank], followed by six leaves y intended for another medical work. 2 volumes in 1, bound in contemporary sheepskin, black leather label. Two scarce provincially-printed medical books, bound (possibly from the parts, given inscription about binding) in a volume and presented by a Lancashire mother, Penelope Vavasour, to her daughter Julia in the year the latter gave birth to her second child. T he first work is in two sections. The first section concerns itself with matters more physical, with chapters on conduct during pregnancy, a section on childbirth, and proper food for infants; the second with matters more spiritual, with chapters on the origin of pride and vanity, the choice of toys, and books. Library Hub records 2 copies, at the BL and NLS, while Worldcat adds 4 more, 3 of which are in New York: Columbia,NYPL, SUNY, and Virginia. The second work is a reprint of John Wesley's 1747 medical guide printed in the Staffordshire town of Burslem. Library Hub records just a single copy, in the Wellcome Collection, to which Worldcat adds 2 copies, both in the United States: the National Library of Medicine and Wesleyan College, Georgia. To the rear are bound the contents leaves and a leaf from the introduction of an edition of William Buchan's Domestic Medicine; given the similarities in paper and print with the pages that immediately precede it, it seems likely to be from Tregortha's 1812 Burslem-printed edition (two American institutions only in Worldcat), and therefore possibly appended by accident in the print-shop. Seller Inventory # 10479
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