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HAY, WILLIAM. Deformity: An Essay. [4], 81, [2] pages, including final postscript leaf. 8vo, contemporary marbled wrappers, lacking backstrip; contents generally clean, opening leaves dog-eared. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, and sold by M. Cooper, 1754
First edition of a meditation on societal attitudes towards the deformed and disabled, apparently the first extended treatment of the subject written from an autobiographical perspective. The author and politician Hay (1695-1755), who served for two decades in Parliament, was a hunchbacked dwarf with impaired vision.
