Mayo, Herbert (1796-1852), MD

  • Mayo, Herbert, 1796-1852
Date:
c.1849
Reference:
MS.7300
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Letters on the truths contained in popular superstitions (Frankfurt am Main and Edinburgh, 1849). Author's annotated copy, containing manuscript emendations and additions, some of which were incorporated in the second edition, published in 1851.

The volume includes a number of leaves at the end of the printed text, bearing additional notes and contemporary press cuttings, mainly relating to mesmerism.

On the front fly-leaf are some humorous pen sketches of facial profiles.

Publication/Creation

c.1849

Physical description

97 ff. 1 vol., 193 × 125 mm. Pale, leather-covered boards, rebacked with buckram.

Contributors

Acquisition note

Purchased from A.R. Heath, 1996.

Finding aids

Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.

Ownership note

There are a number of indications of later ownership: on the title page is inscribed 'M.H. Lewis from the author': on the front fly-leaf 'J.J. Church from Margaret Lewis, Wiesbaden 1854'; and inside the front cover 'Alastair Robb-Smith: Artium diabolicarum Magister d. d. amici sui W.H. Oxoniae MCMXLI' [Alastair Hamish Tearloch Robb-Smith, MD, FRCP].

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Accession number

  • acc. 350381