Published by Harvey, William C., 2008
ISBN 10: 0764139282 ISBN 13: 9780764139284
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Lustar Press no date circa 1992, William Harvey Division of C. R. Bard, Inc., 1992
red leather. Condition: Very Good. very good+ with no dust jacket as issued. 12mo. 202pp. limited edition 205/1578. Issued on the occasion of the quadricentennial celebration of the birth of Dr. William Harvey.
Published by London: William Darton, sold also by Harvey and Darton and John Harris [c. 1822]., 1822
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
8vo, pp. viii, 9-143, [1, advertisements]; engraved frontispiece, preceded by additional engraved 'token' leaf, inscribed 'Mary Ann Mantel [from] her cousin Martha Flower Nov 8th 1839'; Darton's engraved trade card to rear; frontispiece spotted and stained, some light foxing throughout, contents lightly shaken, otherwise a good copy in original quarter blue roan and boards, spine gilt, fairly severely rubbed; the trade card is mostly very clean, the corners lightly creased; leaf loosely laid in; pencil marks to margins.'Fourth edition, corrected and revised'. Elliott was an extremely prolific author for Darton. These poems are settings of Anna Letitia Barbauld's Hymns in Prose for Children (1791).There is the intriguing possibility of a fossil-hunting connection here: Mary Ann Mantel, or Mantell (1795-1869), née Woodhouse, is credited with the discovery of iguanodon fossils, which she then helped her husband Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) to describe. Though we cannot find any familial link to a 'cousin' called Martha Flower, there is evidence of a long working relationship between Gideon and Mr James Flower, an articulator of skeletons for the Royal College of Surgeons. Flower is recorded in several entries of Gideon's diary, first in 1834: 'proceeded to Lambeth, and arranged with Flower respecting my skeletons'; and finally in 1849: 'Flower came and put together the phalangial bones'. Gideon and Mary divorced in 1839.We have traced one other book on LibraryHub bearing this trade card with the address given as the 'Repository of Genius, 58 Holborn Hill', at the Bodleian: Food for Thought by "Mother", published 1823.Darton H505.