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RÖSSLIN, EUCHARIUS. The byrth of mankynde, otherwyse named the womans booke.Newly set furth, corrected and augmented . . . By Thomas Raynold phisition. Title within composite woodcut border. [22], 148 [i. e., 162] leaves. Printed in black letter. 8vo, 181x120 mm, modern calf with most of contemporary blind-tooled calf covers laid down; marginal soiling and dampstaining at beginning and end, blank upper and lower margins of title restored. lacks the illustrations. (London: Tho. Ray[nalde]), 1545
Second edition in English of Rösslin's 1513 Der swangern Frawen und hebammen roszgarten, the first printed manual of midwifery. The 1540 first edition in English had been the first book on the subject in English, and the first book printed in England with engraved illustrations. Garrison-Morton 6139 (1540 edition); Cushing VI.C.-1; Durling 3907; Norman 1844; STC 21154 (this edition).
