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Female Provenance, Female Printer. Culpeper, Nicolas The English Physitian Enlarged; with Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines Made of English Herbs.
London: Printed for Hannah Sawbridge to be sold for Tho. Malthus, 1683.
Octavo, ex libris Sarah Stephenson, with her 1756 inscription on front fly leaf and note, "was her sisters Mary Boucher's" below in the same hand; with a loose endleaf containing a handwritten recipe inserted; bound in full modern brown calf with gilt ruling and labels to spine, contents with browning and marginal tears throughout, close margins, internal tears neatly repaired; fore-edge margin of Q2 torn away with losses to text; brown stain from inserted clipping affecting one opening; 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Wing C-7512.
An advertisement for other "Physical Books" lately printed and sold by Hannah Sawbridge follows the text and lists eleven titles of a medical nature, including Ramsey on worms, Culpeper's New Dispensatory, several works on anatomy, and others on midwifery, the philosopher's stone, and rickets.
