Aristotle's master-piece improved. : In four parts. Containing part I. Of marriages, and at what age young men, and virgins are capable of it. Part II. Of monsters, and monstrous births, and the several reasons thereof, with divers examples. Part III. What conception is; and what is pre-requisite thereto. Part IV. Directions for midwives how to assist women in the time of their labour; and how child-bearing women should be ordered in the time of their lying-in Adapted to the meanest capacities, and much more correct than any yet published. With contents to the whole.

Date:
[approximately 1731]
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Also known as

Aristotle's Masterpiece.
Aristotle improv'd
Aristotle improved

Publication/Creation

London : Printed, and sold by the booksellers, [approximately 1731]

Physical description

156 pages : illustrations ; 12mo (15 cm)

Notes

Not in fact by Aristotle; the attribution is spurious.
Title-page within a double ruled border.
In this edition the preface on page v begins with a woodcut initial and page 111 has first line of text with VVoman"; another edition has a factotum initial on page v and "Woman" on page111.
Frontispiece with illustration on recto and verso; verso titled at head: Aristotle improv'd.
Signatures: [A]⁶ B-G¹².

References note

ESTC T504842

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    EPB/A/61976

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