1825 The Anatomy of the Bones and Muscles, Exhibiting the Parts as they Appear on Dissection

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Very Scarce

A very scarce first edition.

Including both parts of the work, with the first half dedicated to bones, and the second to muscles.

Illustrated with thirty 'highly-finished lithographic impressions'. Collated, complete.

The illustrations in this work are intended to advance the knowledge of artists and illustrators: 'As Applicable to the Fine Arts. Designed for the Use of Artists, And Members of the Artist's Anatomical Society'.

Simpson was a surgeon who also taught anatomy to artists.

Faint pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and front free endpaper.

The work was published by the author for subscribers, the list of whom includes the portrait painter and master drawing collector, Sir Thomas Lawrence, the illustrator George Cruikshank, and the surgeon Joseph Constantine Carpue.