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Remarks on a short narrative of an extraordinary delivery of rabbets : perform'd by John Howard, surgeon at Guilford / as publish'd by Mr. St. Andre ... with a proper regard to his intended recantation by Thomas Brathwaite, surgeon.

Accession number
PML 9313.7
Creator
Brathwaite, Thomas.
Published
London : Printed for N. Blandford, 1726.
Credit line
Purchased in the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Concerns the imposture of Mary Toft.
Library's copy forms part of a bound volume (PML 9313) of collected materials pertaining to the notorious case of "rabbit woman" Mary Toft of Godalming; the contents dated 1726-ca. 1819, and including: 11 printed tracts and specimens of satirical verse and prose, 8 prints, 1 pen and ink portrait of Mary Toft by G.P. Harding, and an original manuscript transcription of the "Predictions of William Whiston". All individual items forming the volume have been cataloged separately.
Description
32 p. ; 21 cm
Provenance
From the libraries of George Nassau (sale 16 Feb. 1824); and Thomas Jolley (sale 15 June 1852).
Classification
Department