Hammond, Jupiter

Nuptial dialogues (in verse). Contains 'A dialogue between an overfond husband, very desirous of children, and his cunning wife, who pretends often to miscarry, yet is never with child', and 'A dialogue between the surly drunkard and the inflexible termagant'.

1729

1 volume 19 pp. + 18 pp. obl. 8vo. 12 × 18 cm. Original vellum covers.

Purchased 1905.

On the back cover in calligraphic script 'Wallis Med. 1763'. (?Edward Wallis, M.D. [1709-1782].) On the front cover 'Henry Dixon 1810 March 10' [1787-1876]. From the Pettigrew Collection.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).