![[ROESSLIN, Eucharius]. The Byrth of Mankynde, otherwyse named the Womans Booke, edited by Thomas Raynalde. [London: ? by Richard Jugge], 1560. 4° (187 x 125mm). Title within a triple rule border and with a woodcut block at foot, 2 leaves of woodcut plates (lacks the last 2 leaves, both of text, a few very minor stains). 18th-century English calf, spine gilt in compartments, double gilt line border and a narrow blindstamped border round sides (rebacked with original spine preserved, somewhat rubbed). Provenance: Samuel Melford, January 1846 (signature on an endpaper) and presented by him in July 1846 'to his friend John Jackson' -- From the Library of John Jackson (1793-1875) of Academy Place, Warrington (bookplate).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CSK/2006_CSK_04075_0241_000(010812).jpg?w=1)
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[ROESSLIN, Eucharius]. The Byrth of Mankynde, otherwyse named the Womans Booke, edited by Thomas Raynalde. [London: ? by Richard Jugge], 1560. 4° (187 x 125mm). Title within a triple rule border and with a woodcut block at foot, 2 leaves of woodcut plates (lacks the last 2 leaves, both of text, a few very minor stains). 18th-century English calf, spine gilt in compartments, double gilt line border and a narrow blindstamped border round sides (rebacked with original spine preserved, somewhat rubbed). Provenance: Samuel Melford, January 1846 (signature on an endpaper) and presented by him in July 1846 'to his friend John Jackson' -- From the Library of John Jackson (1793-1875) of Academy Place, Warrington (bookplate).
Fourth English edition of the earliest work on midwifery to be printed in England. It is based on a translation by Richard Jonas of a Latin edition of Roesslin's Der Swangern Frawen und Hebammen Rosegarten, first printed in Strassburg in c.1512. Although his work contained little new material, being essentially a translation of classical obstetrical literature, it is important for being the first book to illustrate the birth chair and the foetus in utero. It remained influential for over two hundred years and was almost continuously in print up until the end of the eighteenth century - in England alone fifteen editions appeared between 1540 and 1654. STC 21156.
Fourth English edition of the earliest work on midwifery to be printed in England. It is based on a translation by Richard Jonas of a Latin edition of Roesslin's Der Swangern Frawen und Hebammen Rosegarten, first printed in Strassburg in c.1512. Although his work contained little new material, being essentially a translation of classical obstetrical literature, it is important for being the first book to illustrate the birth chair and the foetus in utero. It remained influential for over two hundred years and was almost continuously in print up until the end of the eighteenth century - in England alone fifteen editions appeared between 1540 and 1654. STC 21156.
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