The bibliography and extant portraits of Arthur Johnston, M.D., physician to James VI. and Charles I / [William Johnston].

  • Johnston, William, 1843-1914.
Date:
1895
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Credit: The bibliography and extant portraits of Arthur Johnston, M.D., physician to James VI. and Charles I / [William Johnston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/46 (page 11)
    l6mo. Title, four pages not numbered + pp. 33. There is a printer's error at page 4, the numlier 45 being placed before the forty-sixth instead of the forty-fifth line. This is the Duodecimo for the use of Schools mentioned at p. 30 of Lauder's Calumny Display'd, 1740 (No. 40), as published by Mr. Ruddiman at the importunity of some schoolmasters. There is a copy in the Aberdeen Univ. Library [mn. 22.263], in the Signet Library. According to the Catalogue there is a copy in the Advocates' Library, but it could not be found in 1890 or in 1S95. 21. Poetarum Scotorum Musas Sacrse : sive Quatuor Sacri Codicis Scriptorum, Davidis & Solomonis, Jobi & Jeremiee, Poetici Libri, Per totidem Scotos, Arct. Jonstonum & Jo. Kerrum, P. Adamsonum & G. HogEeum, Latino Carmine redditi : etc. Edinburgi : Apud Tho. & Wal. Ruddimannos. M. DCC. xxxix. 8vo. In two parts. Part I. pp. xiij. -t- Ixxviij. + 208. There is between pages Ixx. and Ixxiij. (which is misprinted Ixiij.) a second title enumer- ating the contents of Pars Prior. Part II. pp. iij. to xxviij. + 209 to 520. There is between pp. 440 and 443 a separate title to Eglisham's and Buchanan's Poeticum Duellum, to which is added Barclay's Jiidiciwn (see Nos. 2, 17, 22, and 24) and Johnston's Consilium, which is here entitled Hypermorus Medicaster, sive Consilium Collegii, etc. (see Nos. I, 2, 17, 22, and 24). Each part has a frontispiece engraved by R. Cooper after Jamesone, differing somewhat in execution, but both represent King David playing the harp with Johnston seated beside him writing, while above this device is a likeness of Johnston Anno 1629,