Buxton, Derbyshire: notebook

Notebook compiled by a visitor to the spa at Buxton, in search of a cure for his rheumatism. Included are maps, observations on medicinal waters, descriptions of Buxton and of excursions in the surrounding area, and a poem in rhyming couplets entitled 'Buxton in both seasons. 1817', beginning 'Buxton, the washpot of the North ...'. 1817.

1817

1 volume 1 volume: 192 × 118 mm., 18 ff. Sewn in limp vellum covers.

Purchased from Michael Silverman, 1990.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).