Smith, Hugh, Senior ( -1790)

Medicamentorum formulae. A carefully written copy of the work first published in 1772. Signature of Thomas Robson [ -1778] on the fly-leaf. Below, an inscription: 'The gift of R[obert] Cawley Esqre. [1720-1793] to G[riffith] Rowlands, Surgeon [1721- ]'. Pasted inside the upper cover is the cut-out signature of 'Percy R[utherford] Adkins [ -1917] Brighton. March 31st, 1917'. Produced in London.

c. 1775

1 volume 1 l. + 157 pp. + 5 ll. (last 3 bl.). 8vo. 19 × 12 cm. Original calf binding. Title within a historiated pen-drawn decorated shield.

Purchased 1930.

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).