Hooper, Robert (1775-1835)

Inter-leaved copies of his 'Anatomical plates of the bones and muscles diminished from Albinus'. Third edition. London: J. Murray 1807. And 'Anatomical plates of the thoracic and abdominal viscera' ... Third edition, London: J. Murray, 1809. The first with holograph [?] MS. additions and illustrations on the Brain: the second with similar additions on the Organs of Generation. In the first volume there are 12 ll. in MS., and 38 large and small pen-drawn coloured drawings of the brain, etc., and one uncoloured. In the second volume there are 10 ll. in MS., and two roughly drawn anatomical illustrations. The script closely resembles that of Robert Hooper, and it is possible that these two volumes were his own copies with holograph additions, which were later revised and expanded into two works published later. These were: 'The morbid anatomy of the human brain', published in 1826, and 'The morbid anatomy of the human uterus', published in 1832. Produced in London.

c. 1820-25

2 volumes 2 vols. 2 ll. + 28 pp. + 12 ll., 15 pp. + 10 ll. 12mo. 151/2 × 9 cm. Original calf-gilt binding. The plates to both the printed copies are in two states, one plain and one coloured.

Purchased 1928.

Robert Hooper was M.A. and M.B. of Pembroke College, Oxford in 1804, and M.D. at St. Andrews, Aberdeen in 1803. He practised in Savile Row, London, and was the compiler of a Medical Dictionary first published in 1798 which ran into many editions. (See the Dictionary of National Biography].

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).