[Rarebooks] FS: Noted American Surgeon's Copy of 1801 Works of Reynolds

[The Book Garden Gallery]

Listmembers,

Offered today is noted 19th c. surgeon William Gibson's copy of the works 
of painter Sir Joshua Reynolds while he was studying medicine under John 
Bell (and taking lessons in art) at Edinburgh, owned and inscribed in the 
year he graduated in 1809.

Please email or call as needed.  Thank you.

Ian Brabner



[140354]   [William Gibson, (1788-1868) Surgeon], Sir Joshua Reynolds, 
Edmond Malone, Thomas Gray, et al.
THE WORKS OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, KNIGHT 
 CONTAINING HIS DISCOUSES, 
IDLERS, A JOURNEY TO FLANDERS AND HOLLAND, AND HIS COMMENTARY ON DU 
FRESNOY'S ART OF PAINTING


London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. cxxiv, [4], 
[i]-iv, [5]-288; 427; 370 pp. Three volumes. Third Edition, corrected. 
Bound in orig. binder's papered boards. Each book is individually protected 
in a custom cloth wrapper which has a spine volume number onlay and yapped 
edges. Untrimmed. Pages with light tanning and occ. foxing. Volume two's 
title page was trimmed tightly by printer along right margin with no loss 
of text. Housed in an attractive and recent triple slipcase, ¾ cloth over ½ 
faux [?] polished calf with gilt titling. This corrected edition also 
contains an account of the life and writings of Reynolds by Malone and "The 
Art of Painting" by C.A. Dufresnoy translated into verse by Rev. William 
Mason.

Contemporary signatures of William Gibson, M.D., (1788-1868) to top of each 
title page, one with a date of 1809, Edinburgh. William Gibson, born in 
Baltimore, private pupil and associate of prominent English surgeon, John 
Bell: "Gibson sailed to Edinburgh, Scotland, where he witnessed the private 
practice and operations of John Bell, a prominent English surgeon. At this 
time he attended lectures on botany and natural history, took art lessons 
[hence his interest in Sir Joshua Reynolds and ownership of this set in the 
year of his graduation], and also devoted attention to studies of hospital 
practice. In 1809 he graduated from the University of Edinburgh." In 1810, 
Gibson helped develop a department of medicine at the University of 
Maryland and was chosen to fill the chair of surgery at age twenty-three. 
He operated successfully on General Winfield Scott at the battle of Lundy's 
Lane near Niagara Falls and, in 1814, served as surgeon when the British 
invaded Baltimore. In 1819 he succeeded Dr. Physick in the chair of surgery 
in the University of Pennsylvania. "Gibson was a dynamic person and a 
dexterous surgeon who performed many daring operations; descriptions of a 
number of them were published in various journals." [ANB]

$675

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