COWPER, William (1666-1709). Myotomia reformata; or An anatomical treatise on the muscles of the human body, edited by Richard Mead, London: for Robert Knaplock & William & John Innys & Jacob Tonson, 1724, 2°, second edition, engraved frontispiece, numerous fine engraved head-and-tailpieces, historiated initials and diagrams, double-page engraved table, 66 engraved plates, including one outline plate, some after Rubens and Raphael (perforation stamp on title, one plate repaired, one with a marginal tear, occasional spotting), old boards (rebacked and recornered in cloth, spine split) [Blake p. 102; GM 392.1; Norman 530; Russell 210; Wellcome II, p. 401] Provenance: Mortimer Frank (bookplate); together with the first edition of the same work (defective). (2)

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COWPER, William (1666-1709). Myotomia reformata; or An anatomical treatise on the muscles of the human body, edited by Richard Mead, London: for Robert Knaplock & William & John Innys & Jacob Tonson, 1724, 2°, second edition, engraved frontispiece, numerous fine engraved head-and-tailpieces, historiated initials and diagrams, double-page engraved table, 66 engraved plates, including one outline plate, some after Rubens and Raphael (perforation stamp on title, one plate repaired, one with a marginal tear, occasional spotting), old boards (rebacked and recornered in cloth, spine split) [Blake p. 102; GM 392.1; Norman 530; Russell 210; Wellcome II, p. 401] Provenance: Mortimer Frank (bookplate); together with the first edition of the same work (defective). (2)

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Norman: "Ranks as one of the finest artistic anatomical productions of the period, not only for the quality of the large plates but for the engraved vignettes of musclemen used as head-and-tailpieces, and the ingenious historiated intitials wittily decorated with myotomical motifs."

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