8vo (195 x 119 mm). Title printed within double-rule border, woodcut tail-piece. (Soiling throughout, some marginal chipping, some creasing.) Contemporary blind-tooled calf, later red morocco lettering-piece gilt (rebacked, some rubbing, some chipping). Provenance: Thomas Powell Hornby Park (signatures and annotations, 1782).

 

FIRST EDITION of Quincy’s work. "At a time when differences between apothecaries and physicians were acute, Quincy, an apothecary, managed to secure widespread acceptance as a writer on medical subjects” and his work “long outlived its author and…became the basis of later dispensatories” (Howard-Jones, “John Quincy, M.D....,” In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 6, No. 2, 1951, p. 149). ESTC T61384.