![B[ULWER], J[ohn]. Anthropometamorphosis: Man transform'd: or, the artificial changling historically presented, in the mad and cruell gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome loveliness of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. London: William Hunt, 1653.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2002/NYR/2002_NYR_01083_0165_000(043418).jpg?w=1)
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B[ULWER], J[ohn]. Anthropometamorphosis: Man transform'd: or, the artificial changling historically presented, in the mad and cruell gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome loveliness of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. London: William Hunt, 1653.
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B[ULWER], J[ohn]. Anthropometamorphosis: Man transform'd: or, the artificial changling historically presented, in the mad and cruell gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome loveliness of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. London: William Hunt, 1653.
Small 4o (182 x 132 mm). Portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title by T. Cross, explanatory leaf cut down and pasted on verso of engraved title facing letterpress title, inserted leaf with 3 woodcuts between pp. 122 and 123, numerous woodcut illustrations of transfigurations, advertisement leaf at end. (Few marginal chips to title, lower corner of III1 torn away not affecting text, first five leaves reinserted on guards, some occasional foxing, light browning.) Modern blind-ruled calf. Provenance: Desmond Geoghegan (armorial bookplate).
Second edition, but the first with illustrations, of this anonymous diatribe against altering or enhancing the natural human form to conform to the dictates of fashion. Krivatsy 1928; Wellcome I, 270; Wing B5461.
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Second edition, but the first with illustrations, of this anonymous diatribe against altering or enhancing the natural human form to conform to the dictates of fashion. Krivatsy 1928; Wellcome I, 270; Wing B5461.