The anatomist dissected, or , The man-midwife finely brought to bed : being an examination of the conduct of Mr. St. Andre : touching the late pretended rabbit-bearer; as it appears from his own narrative / by Lemuel Gulliver, surgeon and anatomist to the kings of Lilliput and Blefuscu, and fellow of the Academy of Sciences in Balnibarbi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gulliver, Lemuel (Surgeon)

Contributor:

Campbell, A. (Alex.), active 1725-1731, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toft, Mary, 1703-1763.

Toft, Mary.

St. André, Nathanael, 1680-1776.

St. André, Nathanael.

Impostors and imposture--Early works to 1800.

Impostors and imposture.

Obstetrics--Early works to 1800.

Obstetrics.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 34 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

The third edition.

Other Title:

Anatomist dissected

Man-midwife finely brought to bed

Fingerprint:

'dhe b-ld e-e- "s"a (7) 1727 (A)

Place of Publication:

Westminster : Printed by and for A. Campbell, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1727.

Notes:

Lemuel Gulliver is a pseudonym. Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: [A]1 B-E⁴ F²(-F2).

With reference to Mary Tofts and Nathaniel St. André's account of her, "A short narrative of an extraordinary delivery of rabbets", printed in London in 1727.

Price from imprint: "(Price 6d.)"

Woodcut head- and tail-piece; initial.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Brathwaite, Thomas. Remarks on A short narrative of an extraordinary delivery of rabbets, perform'd by Mr. John Howard, surgeon at Guilford / by Thomas Brathwaite, surgeon. London : Printed for N. Blandford ..., 1726. - - The several depositions of Edward Costen, Richard Stedman, John Sweetapple, Mary Peytoe, Elizabeth Mason, and Mary Costen. London : Printed for J. Pemberton ..., 1727.

Culture Class Collection copy has spine title " The Mary Toft Affair".

Cited in:

ESTC, N1277

OCLC:

228769977