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Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Bibliotheca elegantissima Monroiana. A catalogue of the ... library of John Monro ... which will be sold by auction
Author: British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade
Author: Jonathan AndrewsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520926080
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro's case book, comprising the doctor's jottings on patients he saw in the course of his private practice--patients drawn from a great variety of social strata--offers an extraordinary window into the subterranean world of the mad-trade in eighteenth-century London. The volume concludes with a complete edition of the case book itself, transcribed in full with editorial annotations by the authors. In the fragmented stories Monro's case book provides, Andrews and Scull find a poignant underworld of human psychological distress, some of it strange and some quite familiar. They place these "cases" in a real world where John Monro and othersuccessful doctors were practicing, not to say inventing, the diagnosis and treatment of madness.
Bibliomania
Author: Thomas Frognall DibdinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
The Bibliomania; Or, Book-madness; Containing Some Account of the History, Symptoms and Cure of this Fatal Disease. In an Epistle Addressed to Richard Heber
Author: Thomas Frognall DibdinPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Bibliomania, Or, Book Madness ; a Bibliographical Romance, in Six Parts ; Illustrated with Cuts
Author: Thomas Frognall DibdinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Bibliomania; Or Book Madness, a Bibliographical Romance in 6 Parts
Author: Thomas Frognall DibdinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Bibliomania
Author: Thomas Frognall DibdinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752375329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Bibliomania by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
The Shakespeare First Folio: A new worldwide census of first folios
Author: Anthony James WestPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198187684
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This major reference book for Shakespeare scholars and bibliographers is in the second part of the story of "the greatest book" in the English language. Listing 228 copies of the First Folio, the Census gives concise descriptions of each, covering condition, special features, provenance, and binding. It traces the search for copies, deals with doubtful identifications, describes the tests for inclusion, and presents details of missing copies.
Author: British Library