Every man his own physician : being, a complete collection of efficacious and approved remedies, for every disease incident to the human body : with plain instructions for their common use : necessary to be had in all families, particularly those residing in the country / by John Theobald ... ; compiled at the command of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Theobald, John, -1760.

Contributor:

Griffin, William, -1803, printer, bookseller.

Faye and Gerson Blatnick Special Collections Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Medicine, Popular--Early works to 1800.

Medicine, Popular.

Genre:

Advertisements.

Annotations (Provenance)

Physical Description:

[4], 51, [1] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The third edition, with great additions and improvements.

Fingerprint:

D.e. r,y, s.nd simo (3) 1764 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed and sold by W. Griffin, in Fetter-Lane, MDCCLXIV [1764]

Notes:

Apparently printed from the same setting of type as the second edition, with a new title page added.

Signatures: [A]² B-G⁴ [H]².

Woodcut head-piece.

Type ornament factotum and head-pieces.

Advertisement on leaf G4v.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy copiously annotated by at least four different late 18th- and early 19th-century hands; some annotations on paper slips affixed to leaves with pins.

Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from Dean Cooke Rare Books Ltd. with assistance from the Faye and Gerson Blatnick Special Collections Fund.

Kislak Center copy bound in quarter calf over marbled paper boards; 5 raised bands on spine; interleaved with blank leaves.

Kislak Center copy: gathering [H] (index) bound in after leaf [A]2.

Kislak Center copy: left board detached.

Cited in:

ESTC N2504

OCLC:

838478689

Online:

The Faye and Gerson Blatnick Special Collections Fund Home Page