[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 1st English ed. of Quillet's "...How to Have Handsome Children..." London: 1710

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(MEDICINE) Quillet, Claude. CALLIPAEDIAE; OR, AN ART HOW TO HAVE HANDSOME CHILDREN: Written in Latin by the Abbot Quillet. To Which Is Added, Paedotrophiae; or, the Art of Nursing and Breeding Up Children: Written in Latin by Monsieur St. Marthe... Now Done Into English Verse. London: John Morphew. 1710. 8vo. (8),264pp. 2 parts in 1. Cont. paneled calf. Short splits at top & bottom of hinges, but very sound. Very minor worming at bottom of title.    $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first English edition of both parts "Callipaediae" and "Paedotrophiae",  published together. This is Foxon C4. There is another 1710 English edition (published by B. Linton) which is only the text of Callipaediae; this is Foxon O142. This printing is paginated (16),72,(8)pp. and contains 5 plates. No plates are called for in our edition of (8),264pp. Scarce. Not in the National Library of Medicine. Wellcome IV p.457. 

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