Remarks on A short narrative of an extraordinary delivery of rabbets, perform'd by Mr. John Howard, surgeon at Guilford : as publish'd by Mr. St. Andre, anatomist to His Majesty : with a proper regard to his intended recantation / by Thomas Brathwaite, surgeon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brathwaite, Thomas, 1698-1731.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

St. André, Nathanael, 1680-1776.

St. André, Nathanael.

Toft, Mary, 1703-1763.

Toft, Mary.

Impostors and imposture--Early works to 1800.

Impostors and imposture.

Obstetrics--Early works to 1800.

Obstetrics.

Physical Description:

32 pages : 21 cm. (8vo)

Fingerprint:

s-c- ndn- i-of hema (3) 1726 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for N. Blandford ..., 1726.

Notes:

Signatures: [superscript pi]B⁴ B-D⁴.

Concerns the imposture of Mary Toft.

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 six-pence.)".

Woodcut head-piece; factotum initial.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Gulliver, Lemuel. The anatomist dissected, or , The man-midwife finely brought to bed / by Lemuel Gulliver, surgeon and anatomist to the kings of Lilliput and Blefuscu, and fellow of the Academy of Sciences in Balnibarbi. Westminster : Printed by and for A. Campbell, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1727.

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

Cited in:

ESTC, T56205

OCLC:

14321617