Unique English Imprints, pre-1800
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The Unique English Imprints, pre-1800 collection contains over 250 books printed in the English-speaking world between 1552 and 1800 that are uniquely held by the National Library of Medicine or survive in very few copies. These items range in content from advertisements for patent medicines and advice manuals to descriptions of hospitals and the by-laws of local medical societies.
Highlights include:
- • A short account of the progress and effects of the plague, which prevailed in the city of London, in the year 1665 (1793) by Daniel Defoe, best known as the author of the novel Robinson Crusoe
- • Information to parents respecting the vaccine inoculation (1800) by F. Skrimshire;
- • The cook's pocket-companion and complete family-guide (1758) by Lydia Honeywood and The Family’s Best Friend, or the Whole art of Cookery (6th edition, 1755) by Arabella Fairfax, two popular works on cooking