A newe booke entituled the gouernement of healthe : wherein is uttered manye notable rules for mannes preseruacion, with sondry symples and other matters, no lesse fruiteful then profitable: colect out of many approued authours. Reduced into the forme of a dialogue, for the better understanding of thunlearned. Whereunto is added a sufferain regiment against the pestilence / By VViliam Bulleyn.

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A newe booke entituled the gouernement of healthe : wherein is uttered manye notable rules for mannes preseruacion, with sondry symples and other matters, no lesse fruiteful then profitable: colect out of many approued authours. Reduced into the forme of a dialogue, for the better understanding of thunlearned. Whereunto is added a sufferain regiment against the pestilence / By VViliam Bulleyn. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Imprinted at London by John Day, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate beneth Saint Martins. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, 1558.

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12 unnumbered pages, cxxv [i.e. cxxiv] leaves : illustrations, portrait (woodcuts) ; 14 cm (8vo)

Notes

Foliation errors: Ff. xxx, xxxii, lxvii, lxix, lxxi, xc, xcii, xciv, xcvi, xcvii-cxxiv are numbered xxxii, xxx, lxvi, lxviii, lxx, lxxxix, xci, xciii, xcv, xcviii-cxxv respectively. Fol. lxxix is not numbered
Dedication is to Sir Thomas Hilton, to whom Bullein was physician. On t.p. verso: T.H.'s arms
Date is taken from explicit: "The first of March, the yeare of our saluacion. 1558"
"I will by Gods grace joyne another booke, called the Healthfull medicines unto this Gouernement, and at the next impression such amendes shalbe made, that both silable and sentence shalbe diligently kept in trew order "--Fol. cxxv [i.e. cxxiv] verso.--Another edition, corrected and reset, was published with the explicit date 20 April 1558 and the title A newe boke of phisicke called ye gouernment of health (STC 4040)
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Maggs Note: A7 wanting: supplied in facsim. taken from the same edition. Sig G is taken from the later edition of April 1558: it is paginated (p. 33-48; p. 47 numbered 57) rather than foliated. Binding: 18th cent. calf, double gilt lines around sides and across spine. Red label, marbled endpapers. Owners' signatures: 1. On t.p.: Henry Dinelye [Dingley], with publication date 1558 (probably the author of the 1564 collection of medical receipts: WMS 244). 2. At end of text, fol. cxxv verso: George Dyngley, 1599. 3. On t.p.: Robert Roberts (?) 4. On t.p.: John Wallis (?) There is a note about later editions in the same hand on t.p. verso, and annotations throughout text. 5. On flyleaf: Charles Bernard. There is also an armorial bookplate of the Reynes family, with name erased

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STC (2nd ed.) 4039
Osler, W. Bib. Osleriana 2174
ESTC S109502
Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books, 1536-1603, 4039
STC (2nd ed.), 4039

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