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PATRICK KERR ROGERS’ AND SON WILLIAM BARTON ROGERS’ COPY –WITH INITIALED CORRECTION BY JENNER by Law, Ave-Maria Lane; and Murray and Highley, Fleet Street., 1800. three parts in one volume, quarto measuring 27.5 cm x 22 cm, pp. vii, [1]-64, 4 engraved and coloured plates; [1]-2, [69]-139; [145]182, errata. Half-titles and title pages to first and third parts, half-title only to second part as issued. Starred leaves K2* and S* are cancels. Paper is watermarked 1798 or 1799.
AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE VARIOLÆ VACCINÆ, A DISEASE DISCOVERED IN SOME OF THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, PARTICULARLY GLOUCESTERSHIRE, AND KNOWN BY THE NAME OF COW POX. SECOND EDITION.
Original boards, spine paper restored, edges untrimmed. Bookplate of Patrick Kerr Rogers, [No. ] of Dr. P.K. Rogers’ Medical and Philosophical Library, on front pastedown. Inscribed on first half-title Wm. B. Rogers to A.D. Gale [?] July 1834. Leaf K2* has inked correction, Variolæ Viccinae, to Vaccinæ, initialed in the margin, E.J. A few marginal highlightings in various places, as well. Original tissue guards before two plates. Some minor spotting, foxing and light browning in text, boards are edgeworn and moderately stained, but overall a very good copy in its original state. Preserved in a fine full black morocco case, inset with a pigskin reproduction of Jenner’s later chart comparing smallpox pustules with those from vaccination.
London: Printed, for the Author, by Sampson Low … and Sold by Law, Ave-Maria Lane; and Murray and Highley, Fleet Street, 1800. FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE VARIOLÆ VACCINÆ. A CONTINUATION OF FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO THE VARIOLÆ VACCINÆ, OR COW POX. London: Printed for the Author, by Sampson Low … and sold
First collected edition of Jenner's three seminal treatises on vaccination published between 1798 and 1800: the first announces the efficacy of cow pox inoculation (“vaccination”) in preventing smallpox - 'one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medicine' (Garrison-Morton 5423); the second contains Jenner's replies to critics, clarifying identification of true cow pox, and proper source and use of variolous matter for effective inoculation; the third provides further examples of efficacious inoculations. A fine association copy, initialed by Jenner, and belonging to Patrick Kerr Rogers and his second son William Barton Rogers, founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lefanu Jenner 24; Norman 1163; NLM/Blake p. 235; Waller 5138; Wellcome III, p. 351.
