The Edinburgh new dispensatory: . containing, I. the elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica ... III. The pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions of the latest editions of the London and Edinburgh pharmacop<oe>ias ... Being an improvement of the New dispensatory by Dr Lewis.
William Lewis (1708-1781)
Category
Books
Date
1791
Materials
Place of origin
Scotland
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3113172
Summary
Bibliographic description
665 [i.e. 656] p. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Half-title wanting. 4 untitled leaves of chemical recipes in Latin, foliated 1-2, 1-2, bound in following p.624. A nineteenth-century manuscript note on recto of one leaf ascribes them to "Black M.D. Chemia professore Edinensi".. Provenance: Twentieth-century crest bookplate: E. C. Stanley Norris, Patcham, with his inscription also on flyleaf: "E. C. S. Norris, Spion Hall, New Lorna [?], Spion Hall ..." Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: Nineteenth-century tree calf over boards; gilt fillets; brown spine label.
Makers and roles
William Lewis (1708-1781) Andrew Duncan (1744-1828)