ANATOMY -- COWPER, G. The Anatomy of Humane Bodies (…) to which is added, an Introduction, explaining the Animal Oeconomy, with a copious index. Oxford, printed at the Theater, for S. Smith and B. Walford, 1698. W. mezzotint front.-portr. of the author, allegorical engr. title with pasted-on English title in cartouche as usual, 2nd engr. title w. lge vign., 114 engr. anatomical plates (2 folding, of which one printed on two joined sheets), for the greater part after drawings by G. de Lairesse. Lge-fol. Cont. blind tooled cf. (Skilfully rebacked in antique style mod. cf. w. red label, all lvs. and plates mounted on stubs, mezzotint portr. laid down, lower sheet of plate 10 a bit dam. and laid down, closed tear in dedication lvs., fore-edge of some plates cut short, sl. foxed/browned).
G-M 385.1: "The most elaborate and beautiful of all 17th century English treatises on anatomy and also one of the most extraordinary plagiarisms in the entire history of medicine. Cowper purchased sets of the van Gunst copperplates used to illustrate Bidloo's book and issued them under his own name with an English text and a new illustrated appendix. For the frontispiece Cowper had a small printed flap with his own name pasted over Bidloo's own engraved title and name." The nine new plates that Cowper commissioned, drawn by Cooke and engraved by van der Gucht, include front and back views of the entire musculature. - Heirs of Hippocrates 723.9; Welcome II, 401.€ 3000
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