The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power.

  • D'Arcy Power
Date:
1931
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dickens and liis novel Edwin Drood. Such a book may then appear as a fragment or be concluded by someone else. It is a joy then for the bibliographer to discover how much was written by the original author and how much by his continuator. The printing works may be destroyed by fire and the stock burnt when only a few copies have been sold. This is said to have happened to the 1653 edition of the English translation of Dr. William Harvey’s De Generatione, which was “printed by James Young for Octavian Pulleyn and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Rose in St. Paul’s Churchyard” (see p. 105). It is said that only 150 copies were printed and of these 115 were destroyed by fire.” The statement is cer¬ tainly wrong as regards the size of the edition and the numbers of copies saved. I should have no great diffi¬ culty in laying my hands upon 35 copies in public libraries alone and there must be many in private hands. There may have been a fire but the orna¬ mental addition as regards the book is useful for it enables it to be sold at an enhanced price when a copy comes into the market. Mr. W. R. LeFanu, the librarian of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, has lately drawn my attention to the fact that the Li¬ brary contains two copies of the book, one with and one without Faithorne’s portrait. Both copies are printed on fine paper and one specially bound and with gilded edges is evidently a presentation copy. The possible explanation, therefore, is that the book was
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