Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg. Whereunto is added, 1. The vertues, qualitites, and properties of every simple. 2. The vertues and use of the compounds. 3. Cautions in giving all medicines that are dangerous. 4. All the medicines that were in the old Latin dispensatory, and are left out in the new Latin one, are printed in this fourth impression in English with their vertues. 5. A key to Galen’s Method of physick, containing thirty three chapters. 6. What is added to the book by the translator, is of a different letter from that which was made by the colledg. By Nich. Culpeper Gent. Student in physick and astrology; living in Spittle-fields neer London.
London: printed for Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange, 1653.
Collation:
Folio: [A]2 B–C2 (–C2) D–S2
(–S2) T–Z2 (–Z2) 2A–2Z2 4B–4L2,
109 leaves, pp. [14] 54 57–74 101–188 185–186 [2] 301–325 [15].
Title within a double rule border, headpieces made up of fleurons.
Portrait on [A]1v signed ‘Cross sculpsit’. PORTRAIT AND LEAF Z1
SUPPLIED FROM ANOTHER COPY.
Condition:
285 x 195mm. Last leaf frayed in the margins without loss; some gatherings
lightly browned but a large and fairly fresh copy.
Binding:
Rebound in buckram.
Provenance:
A few additions to the index in a contemporary hand; Edwin Clarke (1919–1996).
References:
Wing C7525; ESTC R2908 (second
state of title; inaccurate pagination); Wellcome II, p. 414 (the Wellcome
copy with original and cancel title); Krivatsy 2982 (the NLM copy lacking
the portrait; cancel title); Poynter 10 (inaccurate pagination); Sanderson
D.1.(b).
Price:
£1,200
First edition, with the uncancelled title. In the replacement title, there are 7 numbered additions, the last being, ‘7. In this impression the Latin name of every one of the compounds is printed, and in what page of the new folio Latin book they are to be found’. A translation, with additions of Pharmacopoeia Londinensis (1650).
¶ This is Culpeper’s translation, with additions, of the second London Pharmacopoeia. As he points out in the title, he has included preparations from the first Pharmacopoeia (1618) to make the English edition more complete than the official Latin version.
