The birth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke. / Newly set forth, corrected, and augmented. Whose contentes ye may reade in the table of the booke, and most playnely in the prologue. By Thomas Raynalde phisition.

Swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten. English

Birth of mankind

Womans booke

[London] : [Richard Jugge], [1565]

14 unnumbered pages, Cxxxi [i.e. 132] leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 4to

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/75/24

Based on a translation by Richard Jonas of a Latin edition of: Roeslin, Eucharius. Der swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten.

Date of publication from T6r, at end of text; place of publication and printer's name from STC.

Signatures: A4 B-S8 T6.

Copy 1. Includes the folding plate with nine anatomical figures and two leaves of Birth figures. Full contemporary calf, rebacked. Central gilt centrepiece on upper and lower covers. Some contemporary marginal annotations. Signature on title page: Edward B. Sinclair ... 1857 (Sir Edward Burrowes Sinclair (1824-1882) was Professor of Midwifery at Trinity College Dublin from 1867). There are many annotations throughout, in a 19th century hand, probably by Sinclair.

STC (2nd ed.) 21157

ESTC S116022

Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books, 1536-1603, 21158

STC (2nd ed.), 21158