| Item Description: | Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1336. - Caption title: Recommendatory preface. - English Short Title Catalog, W21676. - Evans, 14891. - Intended as the preface to an American edition of Dimsdale's Present method of inoculating for the small-pox (cf. the Advertisement, p. [2]). The proposed edition was evidently not published, but Morgan's Recommendation was issued both with title page as described here and in an issue of 16 p., without title page (Bristol B4280). - Reproduction of original from Library of Congress. - Signed on p. 18: John Morgan. Cambridge, in New-England April 19th 1776 |
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