Compendium anatomicum, or A compendious treatise of anatomy adapted to the arts of painting and sculpture: in which the external muscles of the human body are represented as they appear when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface.

  • Tinney, John.
Date:
1743
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London : Printed for John Tinney engraver and printseller ..., 1743.

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12 unnumbered pages, VIII leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 36 cm (folio)

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All plates, and the dedication on pl.I, signed by Tinney
First edition, and with the plates numbered I-VIII top left (pl.II misnumbered I). The rectos of the final four letterpress leaves are blank
Not in ESTC (1990)
See also K.F. Russell, "John Tinney's Compendium Anatomicum and its publishers", Medical History, vol.18 (1974), p.174-85
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Phelps 45 Note: Marginal cropping, affecting imprint date and some platemarks. Minor recent paper repairs. Watermark: Strasburg lily or initials "I V" (both as Churchill 408, but without Honig's watermark). Possibly a made-up copy, pl.V stamped on recto "King's College Hospital Medical School". Binding: recent calf-backed boards, new endpapers

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Russell 816
ESTC N493224
Russell, 816

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