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BATEMAN, Thomas (1778-1821). Delineations of Cutaneous Diseases: exhibiting the characteristic appearances of the principal genera and species comprised in the classification of the late Dr Willan; and completing the series of engravings begun by that author. London: Longman, 1817.
4o (270 x 210 mm). 72 stipple-engraved color plates enhanced with hand-coloring, by J. Stewart and L. Sailliar after Bateman and Strutt (some occasional pale spotting). Tipped-in after pl. 8 is a page from The British Medical Journal, dated December 2, 1893, illustrating eruptions from bromides and iodides. Quarter calf antique, marbled boards (corners slightly bumped). Provenance: illegible ownership signature on title-page; Haskell F. Norman (bookplate, his sale part III, Christie's, 29 October 1998, lot 917).
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF "THE FIRST ATLAS OF DERMATOLOGY" (Garrison-Morton). Bateman completed the morphological system of classifying skin diseases which his teacher, Robert Willan, left half finished at his death. In 1814 Bateman obtained the copyright to the 34 plates for Willan's On Cutaneous Diseases. To these plates, which he had refurbished, he added a new set of 38 plates depicting the later genera of dermatoses, which had never before been illustrated.
Bateman's atlas of skin diseases was published in twelve fascicles of six plates each, issued quarterly from 1814 to 1817. According to information in the publisher's ledgers, now held at the University of Reading, the parts were reprinted as stock declined up until circa 1830, with between 450 and 650 copies of each part eventually printed, suggesting a total edition size for the work of about 500 copies. The watermarks in the Edell copy bear dates between 1814 and 1817, indicating early issues. Crissey & Parish, pp. 28-31; Ehring, Skin Diseases: 5 Centuries of Scientific Illustration (1989) pp. 78-79; Garrison-Morton 3988; Heirs of Hippocrates 1337; Norman 133; Osler 1963; Wellcome II, p.114.
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FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF "THE FIRST ATLAS OF DERMATOLOGY" (Garrison-Morton). Bateman completed the morphological system of classifying skin diseases which his teacher, Robert Willan, left half finished at his death. In 1814 Bateman obtained the copyright to the 34 plates for Willan's On Cutaneous Diseases. To these plates, which he had refurbished, he added a new set of 38 plates depicting the later genera of dermatoses, which had never before been illustrated.
Bateman's atlas of skin diseases was published in twelve fascicles of six plates each, issued quarterly from 1814 to 1817. According to information in the publisher's ledgers, now held at the University of Reading, the parts were reprinted as stock declined up until circa 1830, with between 450 and 650 copies of each part eventually printed, suggesting a total edition size for the work of about 500 copies. The watermarks in the Edell copy bear dates between 1814 and 1817, indicating early issues. Crissey & Parish, pp. 28-31; Ehring, Skin Diseases: 5 Centuries of Scientific Illustration (1989) pp. 78-79; Garrison-Morton 3988; Heirs of Hippocrates 1337; Norman 133; Osler 1963; Wellcome II, p.114.