Wight, Orlando Williams (1824-1888)

The romance of Abelard and Heloïse. Author's holograph MS. Newark (N.J.) A philosophical novel published in New York in 1853.

1852

4 ll. (last 2 bl.). + 385 ff. + 16 bl. ll. 4to. 24 x 191/2 cm. Original calf binding. Some leaves appear to have been torn out before the title-page, and among the blank leaves at the end.

Purchased 1928.

A notice of the author is found in the B.M.J. 1891, i, pp. 762,763, in the form of a review of the biography written by his brother Dr. J. S. Wight entitled: `Memorial of O. W. Wight, A.M., M.D., Sanitarian, Lawyer, and Author', Cambridge (Mass.), 1890

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).