Cheirexokē. [sic] : The excellency or handy-vvork of the royal hand.

Excellency or handy-work of the royal hand

London : Printed by William Godbid for the author, M. DC. LXV. [1665]

6 unnumbered pages, 37 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 4to (17 cm)

Wing A1050

ESTC R1159

Title transliterated from Greek.

"The epistle dedicatory" signed: T.A., M.D.

Written by Dr. Thomas Allen. Cf. Halkett & Laing. Cf. also Wm. Beckett's Enquiry in the antiquity and efficacy of touching for the king's evil, 1722, p. 58: "Dr. Thomas Allen, sometime of Caius College in Cambridge, afterward physician in ordinary to King Charles the Second, published a treatise of the cure of the evil by the touch, which he entitles, 'The excellency or handy-work of the royal hand'." BM attributes to either Allen or to Thomas Harris.

Copy 1 Note: Final leaf damaged with some loss of text. Bookplate of Eliot Hodgkin 1881.