An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.

[London] : C. Johnson

1 print : etching ; platemark 17 x 11.7 cm

Dr. Ve-d-n. ... Lettering continues: "A remarkable walking bookseller quack doctor &c. &c. hawking old books as Mosess do old cloaths. Stop gentle reader & behold a beau in boots, searching for gold, a walking bookseller, an epicure, a teacher, docter & a connoisseur. Gratis to the purchases of the Wonderful Magazine"

See record number 20670 for a duplicate of this print

Wellcome Collection 20922i