Accession number:
PML 5099
Published:
London : Printed for Richard Harper, 1658.
Description:
[16] leaves : illustrations (woodcut) ; 15 x 10 cm. (8vo)
Credit:
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes:
Signatures: A-B⁸: 16 leaves.
The second part signed H.C.
Does "H.C." refer to Henry Chettle, as entered in Morgan/Irwin catalogue? Not found under Chettle in bibiliographies. In Lowndes and Griswold sale catalogue entered under Anatomy.
PML copy with uncut edges.
PML copy collated against 1638 edition cited in Harleian Miscellany, vol. 4 (1809), pp. 267-82.
PML copy is misbound: leaves A1-A2, B2-B7, A7-A8, B1, A3-A6, B8.
Binding:
Green morocco by William Pratt.
Variant Title:
The second part of the womans tongue anatomized
Provenance:
Frances Wolfreston, inscription: "Frances Wolfreston hor bouk" (part II, leaf A3r), Wolfreston sale, Sotheby's, 24 May 1856; Almon Whiting Griswold, his sale, Leavitt & Co. (New York), 1 June 1880, lot 22; Theodore Irwin, purchased at Griswold sale and then had bound by Pratt; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
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