Volume 2

Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets : Six papers read to the Archæological society of Glasgow April 1882-January 1888 / by John Ferguson.

  • John Ferguson
Date:
1895-1915
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Credit: Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets : Six papers read to the Archæological society of Glasgow April 1882-January 1888 / by John Ferguson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by Brunet. Both are undated, and both are in small 8vo, printed in black letter. One of them has no place or printer’s name, the other issued from the press of Alain Lotrian and Denis Janot at Paris, and may therefore have appeared as early as 1520. This work requires fuller con- sideration than I can give it here at present, and I hope to subject it to a special examination. 17. A much-esteemed book must have been Vicary’s Englishmans Treasure, which was edited and enlarged and supplemented by William Bremer. The earliest edition that I was able to submit formerly to the Society was printed by Thomas Creede at London, 1596, in black letter, Part V., p. 454. There was also a very dilapidated copy, certainly dated 1696, and purporting to be of the seventh edition, Part IV., p, 306. An- other copy, however, of the seventh edition was dated 1626, and this agrees better with those now to be described. The first edition seems to be that imprinted at London by John Windet for John Perin in 1586. It is a small black letter quarto: 5 preliminary leaves, B to L, A, Bb to Dd in fours, Ee in two, or pp. [10] 115 [1 blank]. It contains Vicary’s Anatomy, Remedies for Wounds, various medical receipts, Urines, of the Bath of Baeth. In the later editions much matter was added to the original book. The next copy I have to show is of the sixth edition 3 it was “ Imprinted at London by Thomas Creede, 1613.” It is a small 4to, in black letter, pp. [8] 224 [8]. It has the dedication to the Governors of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, a short note “To the Reader,” Vicary’s address to the Surgeons, and the picture of the human skeleton, Vicary’s True Anatomy, Secrets of Chirurgerie, of Medicine and of Vrines, the English Baths, and a collection of medicinal preparations, waters, oyntments, plaisters, etc., by G. E., and the last eight pages contain an index. There is no plate of the blood- vessels in this edition as there is in that of 1641. This is rather a neat little book. The eighth edition, a copy of which is in the Hunterian Library and in the British Museum (1039. g. 7), was printed at London by Alsop and Fawcet in 1633. It is exactly like those of 1626 and 1641, being in 4to and black letter, pp. [8] 264 [8]. It does not, however, contain the diagram