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BULWER, JOHN. Pathomyotamia; or, A Dissection of the Significative Muscles of the Affections of the Minde. [36], 240 pages. 12mo, 138x79 mm, 19th-century calf, worn, portion missing from top of spine; margins trimmed without text loss, title toned and soiled with 19th-century owner's signature. Armorial bookplate of the Anglican clergyman and hymn writer Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847). London: W. W. for Humphrey Moseley, 1649
first edition. "Pathomyotomia is the scarcest and most crudely printed of Bulwer's books . . . presenting a systematic head-to-toe survey of the physiological bases of human expressive behaviour and the relationship between sensation, images, and skilled actions. He skirts the philosophical issue of mind-body relations but conveys a picture of the entire body as a signifying system" (ODNB). Norman 371; Rieber & Gach 78; Wing B5468.
