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Armstrong’s health.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 145, no. 35, as above.
ARMSTRONG,
John.
The Art of Preserving Health: a Poem. By John Armstrong, M.D.
London: Printed for
T. Cadell (Successor to Mr. Millar),
mdcclxviii
. [1768.]
PR3316 .A6 A8 1765
Sm. 8vo. 51 leaves, engraved vignette on the title, separate half-titles for Book II, Diet, Book III, Exercise, and Book IV,
The Passions.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Jefferson quoted a passage from this poem, lines 288-292, in his
Thoughts on English prosody
.
John Armstrong, 1709-1779, Scots poet, physician and essayist, first published
The Art of Preserving Health in 1744. The book, a didactic poem written in blank verse, passed through many editions.
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Armstrong’s Oeconomy of love.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 145, no. 60, as above.
[ARMSTRONG,
John.]
The Oeconomy of Love. A Poetical Essay . . . A New Edition, Revised and corrected by the Author.
London:
S. Bladen,
mdcclxviii
. [1768.]
12mo. 23 leaves; a copy of this edition was not available in the Library of Congress.
Halkett and Laing IV, 237.
Lowndes I, 71.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 309.
For a note on Armstrong, see no. 4470. This is the first expurgated edition of this poem, the deletions being made by Armstrong
himself.
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Garth’s Dispensatory.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 145, no. 34, as above.
[GARTH,
Sir Samuel.]
The Dispensary. A Poem. In Six Canto’s . . . The
Ninth Edition. With several Descriptions and Episodes never before Printed.
London: Printed for
J.T. and Sold by
Tho. Astley,
m dcc xxvi
. [1726.]
PR3471 .G3 A65 1726
12mo. 2 parts in 1, 54 leaves including a frontispiece and a plate before each of the six cantos by and after Lud. Du Guernier included in the collation; 18 leaves with separate signatures and pagination, with the title:
A Compleat Key to the Dispensary.
London: Printed for
T. Wotton;
J. Lacy;
J. Shuckburgh; and
C. Motte,
M. DCC. XXVI. price
6 d.; complimentary verses at the beginning.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Halkett and Laing II, 86.
Garth’s Dispensary was one of the books purchased by Jefferson from the Rev. Samuel Henley, and is on the list appended to
his letter to Henley dated from Paris, March 3, 1785, and is also on the separate list made by Jefferson of the books in this purchase.
Sir Samuel Garth, 1661-1719, English physician and poet, first published this poem in 1699. It represents the first attempt to establish rooms
in hospitals for outpatients, where they could be supplied with medicines and attention at low cost. Two more editions were
printed in the same year and a fourth in 1700, the ninth edition in 1726 as above, and the tenth in 1741. The work is dedicated
to Anthony Henley.
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Darwin’s Botanic garden. Irish edñ
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 145 [Darwin’s Botanic Garden, 2 v 8vo] C. 13, No. 13.
The Irish edition of
The Botanic Garden (published in Dublin, 1790, 1793) was apparently not sold to Congress in 1815. An edition printed by T. and J. Swords, New
York, in 1798, was listed by Jefferson, and in the Library of Congress Catalogue of 1815, in Chapter XIII, qv. no. 1072.
