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[MEAD, RICHARD.] The Life and Adventures of Don Bilioso de L'Estomac,Translated from the Original Spanish into French, done from the French into English with a Letter to the College of Physicians. 23 pages, including half-title. 8vo, modern 1/4 calf by Bernard Middleton; half-title and last page soiled. Kenneth Garth Huston bookplate. London: Bettenham, 1719
scarce first edition of a satire impugning the character of John Woodward, with whom Mead feuded violently over the proper treatment of smallpox. The text consists of chapter summaries of an imaginary and absurd picaresque novel.
