Paris, John Ayrton (1785-1856)

Inter-leaved copy of the first edition of his 'Pharmacologia', London: Callow. 1812. With numerous holograph additions and corrections by the Author, in preparation for a third edition. Produced in London.

c. 1815

1 volume 238 ll. 8vo. 151/2 × 91/2 cm. Original calf binding, defective. A leaf or leaves have been torn out after p. xi of the preface.

Purchased 1928.

An addition on the title-page states that the author was Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London (1814). Under the word 'Preface' on the sixth leaf, the author has added 'To the Final and Second Editions'. [see the Dictionary of National Biography]. On the verso of the inter-leaf facing p. xi of the preface, he states definitely that he is 'offering this 3d edition'. It was published in 1819.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).