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HALL, JOHN. Select Observations on English Bodies; or, Cures both Empericall and Historicall, performed upon very eminent Persons in desperate Diseases. [24], 316 pages, including initial leaf with longitudinal title on recto. 12mo, 140x81 mm, contemporary sheep, spine worn, missing portion at bottom, front cover worn through at corners and along fore edge; later owner's notes in ink on endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Katherine Elsie Biggs on verso of initial leaf. London: John Sherley, 1657
first edition. "Hall was Shakespeare's son-in-law, having married Shakespeare's elder daughter Susanna in 1607; his Select Observations is interesting primarily as a piece of medical Shakespeareana" (Norman). The text consists of case notes from his practice in Stratford upon Avon, posthumously translated and published by James Cooke from Hall's manuscript in Latin. Bartlett 376; Norman 971; Wing H356.
