The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Borde, of physycke doctor. A compendyous regyment, or, A dyetary of helth made in Mountpyllier / compyled by Andrewe Boorde, of physycke doctour ; Barnes in the defence of the berde : a treatyse made, answerynge the treatyse of Doctor Borde upon berdes ; edited, with a life of Andrew Boorde, and large extracts from his Breuyary, by F.J. Furnivall.

Date:
1870
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Credit: The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Borde, of physycke doctor. A compendyous regyment, or, A dyetary of helth made in Mountpyllier / compyled by Andrewe Boorde, of physycke doctour ; Barnes in the defence of the berde : a treatyse made, answerynge the treatyse of Doctor Borde upon berdes ; edited, with a life of Andrew Boorde, and large extracts from his Breuyary, by F.J. Furnivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    A visit to tlie British Museum soon showed that one of these ' editions' ^ in the British Museum was only a title-page stuck before a titleless copy of Moulton's Olasse of Health, on to which had been stuck a colophon from some other book of Wyer's printing. The other Museum edition, in big black-letter, had not, on the front and back of its title, the dedication to the Duke of Norfolk tliat the other title-page had, and I therefore wrote to Mr Hazlitt to know where was the thu'd copy that was before him when he wrote his Boorde entries. He answered that he had sold it to Mr F. S. Ellis of King St., Covent Garden, in one of whose Catalogues he had after- wards seen it on sale for four guineas. I then applied to Mr EUis for this copy, and he very kindly had search made for it through his daybooks of several years, and found that it had been sold to our friend and member, Mr Henry Hucks Gibbs. jMr Gibbs at once lent me his copy, and it proved to be a complete one of the edition of which the Museum had only a title-page. It had a dedication to the Duke of Norfolk,—^whom Boorde had attended in 1530,—dated 5 May, 1542, which was not in the undated edition in the Museum, and ]\'Ir J. Brenchley Eye of the Printed-Book Department was clearly of opinion that the type of the 1542 copy was earlier than that of the bigger black-letter of the undated one, though it too was printed by Eobert Wyer, or said so to be. Further, Mr Gibbs's copy was printed by Eobert Wyer for John Gowghe ; and the latest date m Herbert's Ames for Eobert Wyer is 1542, while the latest for John Gough is 1543. One felt, therefore, tolerably safe in concluding that the 1542 copy was the first edition BOOEDE (Andr.) A compendious regiment or dietary of health. London, Eobert Wyer, no date. 8°. ^ (a) Title (witJdn a border of ornaments) : ^ Here Folo-/weth a Com- peredyoi:s Re-/gyment or a Dyetary of / helth, made in MouHt-/pyllor : Com- pyled / by Andrewe / Boorde, of / Pliysicke / Doctor./ Iwoodciit of an astronomer.:\ Imprint: t Imprynted by me Robert / Wyer : Dwcllynge at the / sygne of seynt lohi E-/uangelyst, in S. Mar-/tyns Parysshe, besy-/de Charynge / Crosse./ % Cum priuilegio ad imprimen-/dum solum. Collation: ABCDBFGHIKLMNOPQ*; 64 leaves (1—64) in octavo. Leaf r title (as above) ; l-4' Table of chapters; 4'—64 Text; 64 imprint (as a^ove). . ^. r i.. The copy in the Cambridge University Library is perfect. ' Some bibliographers (if not most) are sadly careless dogs.