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EDWARD JENNER (1749-1823)
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease discovered in some of the Western Counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of Cow Pox. --Further Observations on the Variolae Vaccinae. --A Continuation of Facts and Observations relative to the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow Pox. London: Sampson Low for the author, sold by Low and Murray and Highley, 1800. 3 parts in one volume, 4° (270 x 212 mm). Half-titles to all parts, titles to parts i and iii. 4 engraved plates by William Skelton after Skelton and Edward Pearce, printed in colour and finished in colours by hand. Retaining errata leaf 2B2, K2* and S* cancels, text printed on light blue paper watermarked '98'. (Scattered light spotting and offsetting, offsetting from half-title onto first title, plates trimmed touching imprint, manuscript material slightly stained by glue.) Modern mottled calf over marbled boards in a contemporary style for Henry Sotheran, Ltd, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one. Provenance: Edward Jenner, gift to father of -- Charles Hawkins (signature on first half-title and bookplate; autograph manuscript signed tipped onto first half-title, quoting the Minutes of the Weekly Board [of St George's Hospital, London] of 22 October 1857, which record the gift of the hide of the cow from which the first vaccine matter was taken, [s.d.], 3 pages, 4°; autograph letter signed tipped onto endpaper, 21 October 1874, 27 Savile Row, 3 pages, 8°, detailing the volume's provenance, and presenting it to:) -- Dr Seaton (?Edward Cator Seaton, 1815-1880) -- annotation in a 19th-century hand about Tierney on p. 165 -- Sir Shirley Forster Murphy (1848-1923, autograph letter signed, 18 February 1904, Public Health Department, 8 St Martin's Place, one page on a bifolium, 8°, stating that the book was purchased in a second-hand bookshop in Clapham, and presenting it to [?]Porter).
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF THE THREE TEXTS. PRESENTATION COPY FROM JENNER. This edition is the first collected edition of Jenner's first three treatises on vaccination, published between 1798 and 1800: the first announcing 'one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medicine' (Garrison-Morton 5423); the second containing Jenner's first reply to critics, explaining common mistakes (such as the failure to recognise the symptoms of true cowpox, leading to ineffectual inoculations), and considering differences between inoculations in London and in the countryside; the third including further reports of successful inoculations.
This copy was given by Jenner to the father of Charles Hawkins, as Hawkins states in his letter, which also adds biographical details about Sir Matthew Tierney, who wrote a report on a successful series of inoculations to Jenner (printed on pp. 163-165); Hawkins is probably the Charles Hawkins who edited The Works ... with an Autobiography of Sir Benjamin Brodie, the Senior Surgeon of St George's Hospital (London: 1865). Charles Hawkins gave this copy to Doctor Seaton, presumably Edward Cator Seaton, a founding member and subsequently president of both the Western Medical Society and the Epidemiological Society; in 1850 he was appointed secretary to the latter society's committee on smallpox and vaccination and wrote the committee's report, which was presented to parliament in 1852. The report recommended the replacement of voluntary vaccination with a compulsory system, and was very influential in the passing of the Compulsory Vaccination Act (which incorporated some of its suggestions) the following year. Seaton swiftly became established as one of the leading authorities on vaccination and public health, publishing (amongst other works) A Handbook of Vaccination in 1868. This copy later passed to Sir Shirley F. Murphy, who was, like Seaton, a president of the Epidemiological Society (under whose presidency the decision to found a Jenner Memorial Medal was taken) and an expert on Public Health. ESTC s.v.; Lefanu Jenner 24; Norman 1163; NLM/Blake p. 235; Waller 5138; Wellcome III, p. 351.
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease discovered in some of the Western Counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of Cow Pox. --Further Observations on the Variolae Vaccinae. --A Continuation of Facts and Observations relative to the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow Pox. London: Sampson Low for the author, sold by Low and Murray and Highley, 1800. 3 parts in one volume, 4° (270 x 212 mm). Half-titles to all parts, titles to parts i and iii. 4 engraved plates by William Skelton after Skelton and Edward Pearce, printed in colour and finished in colours by hand. Retaining errata leaf 2B2, K2* and S* cancels, text printed on light blue paper watermarked '98'. (Scattered light spotting and offsetting, offsetting from half-title onto first title, plates trimmed touching imprint, manuscript material slightly stained by glue.) Modern mottled calf over marbled boards in a contemporary style for Henry Sotheran, Ltd, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one. Provenance: Edward Jenner, gift to father of -- Charles Hawkins (signature on first half-title and bookplate; autograph manuscript signed tipped onto first half-title, quoting the Minutes of the Weekly Board [of St George's Hospital, London] of 22 October 1857, which record the gift of the hide of the cow from which the first vaccine matter was taken, [s.d.], 3 pages, 4°; autograph letter signed tipped onto endpaper, 21 October 1874, 27 Savile Row, 3 pages, 8°, detailing the volume's provenance, and presenting it to:) -- Dr Seaton (?Edward Cator Seaton, 1815-1880) -- annotation in a 19th-century hand about Tierney on p. 165 -- Sir Shirley Forster Murphy (1848-1923, autograph letter signed, 18 February 1904, Public Health Department, 8 St Martin's Place, one page on a bifolium, 8°, stating that the book was purchased in a second-hand bookshop in Clapham, and presenting it to [?]Porter).
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF THE THREE TEXTS. PRESENTATION COPY FROM JENNER. This edition is the first collected edition of Jenner's first three treatises on vaccination, published between 1798 and 1800: the first announcing 'one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medicine' (Garrison-Morton 5423); the second containing Jenner's first reply to critics, explaining common mistakes (such as the failure to recognise the symptoms of true cowpox, leading to ineffectual inoculations), and considering differences between inoculations in London and in the countryside; the third including further reports of successful inoculations.
This copy was given by Jenner to the father of Charles Hawkins, as Hawkins states in his letter, which also adds biographical details about Sir Matthew Tierney, who wrote a report on a successful series of inoculations to Jenner (printed on pp. 163-165); Hawkins is probably the Charles Hawkins who edited The Works ... with an Autobiography of Sir Benjamin Brodie, the Senior Surgeon of St George's Hospital (London: 1865). Charles Hawkins gave this copy to Doctor Seaton, presumably Edward Cator Seaton, a founding member and subsequently president of both the Western Medical Society and the Epidemiological Society; in 1850 he was appointed secretary to the latter society's committee on smallpox and vaccination and wrote the committee's report, which was presented to parliament in 1852. The report recommended the replacement of voluntary vaccination with a compulsory system, and was very influential in the passing of the Compulsory Vaccination Act (which incorporated some of its suggestions) the following year. Seaton swiftly became established as one of the leading authorities on vaccination and public health, publishing (amongst other works) A Handbook of Vaccination in 1868. This copy later passed to Sir Shirley F. Murphy, who was, like Seaton, a president of the Epidemiological Society (under whose presidency the decision to found a Jenner Memorial Medal was taken) and an expert on Public Health. ESTC s.v.; Lefanu Jenner 24; Norman 1163; NLM/Blake p. 235; Waller 5138; Wellcome III, p. 351.
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