A true relation of a monstrons [sic] female-child : with two heads, four eyes, four ears, two noses, two mouths and four arms, four legs, and all things else proportionably, fixed to one body. Born about the 19th of May last, ar [sic] a village called Ill-Brewers near Taunton Dean in somerset=shire. Likewise a true and perfect account of its form so prodigiously strange, with several remarkable passages observed from it since its birth, so great and amazing, that the like has not been known in many ages: with many other circumstances. As it was faithfully communicated in a letter, by a person of worth, living in Tauntou-Dean [sic], to a gentleman here in London, and attested by many hundreds of no mean rank; and well koown [sic] to several gentlemen in and about London.

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[1685?]
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True relation of a monstrous female-child

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London : Printed by D. Mallet, [1685?]

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4 pages : illustrations (woodcut).

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True relation of a monstrous female-childe

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Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) T2886B
Early English books tract supplement interim guide C.161.f.2[89]

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Date of publication suggested by Wing.
Reproduction of original in the British Library.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A3:5[91]) s1999 miun s

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