COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL15050696
Reference Number:
Medical (pre-1701) 570
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Illustrated frontispiece
Parent Work Title:
Compleat Midwife's Practice Enlarged, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man. Containing a perfect directory or rules for midwives and nurses. As also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children: From the experience of our English authors. Viz. Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper, and others of foreign nations. With instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter, a little before her death, touching the practice of the said art. As also a farther discovery of those secrets kept close in the breast of Sir Theodore Mayern, Mr. Nicholas Culpeper, and other English writiers, not made publick till now. The fifth edition correct, and much enlarged, by John Pechey. The whole illustrated with copper plates.
Alternative Parent Work Title:
The Compleat midwife's practice enlarged, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man
Creator:
Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Bettesworth, Arthur, -1739
Creator Role:
Printer
Date Created:
1699
Publication Details:
London: A Bettesworth
Page/Sheet:
Frontispiece
Description:
Portrait of Madame Louys Bourgeois, midwife to the queen of France. Frontispiece to an English midwifery guide.
Keyword:
Medical Illustration; Midwifery; Obstetrics; Childbirth.
Language Code:
eng-GB
Language:
English
Subject:
Medicine--History
Subject:
Medicine
Subject:
Obstetrics
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Illustrated works
Technique Used:
Copper engraving (printing process) (printing process)
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, UK
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Bibliographic Citation:
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2015-05-28
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2015-09
Educational Notes:
Early Medical Illustration Project
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Academic Project Lead:
Cordelia Warr
Academic Project Lead:
Hannah Priest
Illustrated frontispiece
