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003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220113124542.6
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100 1 # $a Bean
245 1 0 $a Anatomy For The Use Of Artists. By Richard Lewis Bean, Late House-Surgeon At King's College And Charing-Cross Hospitals. - Illustrated By Several Plates. -
260 # # $a London: $b Henry Renshaw, 356, Strand. $c MDCCCXLI. $c [1841]
300 # # $a 47, [1] p., 10 pl.; $c 237 mm. (Octavo.)
505 0 # $a [T.p., dedic.] - Preface - Contents - Introduction - [Plates, with descriptive texts] - [Text]; [colophon].
508 # # $a No plate is signed by draughtsman or engraver. Each carries the imprint of the intaglio-printers, 'M & N Hanhart Lith Printers'.

The text printer is named in the colophon: 'T.C. Savill, Printer, 107, St. Martin's Lane.'

The work is dedicated by the Author to William Fergusson, F.R.S.E.
510 0 # $a M. Cazort et al., The Ingenious Machine of Nature: Four Centuries Of Art And Anatomy [exhibition catalogue] (1996).
520 2 # $a Many artists were dissuaded from reading books on anatomy by their complexity. Here, in an attempt at simplification, Bean uses a new system of notation, labelling muscles and bones by their initials instead of numbers and single letters - but this, too, sometimes leads to unwieldy results.
561 # # $a The front free-endpaper is inscribed in ink, 'Presented by R L Bean Esqr'. Presented by the author in 1841 (acknowledged RA Council Minutes, IX, 206).
563 # # $a 19th-century brown cloth-covered boards, upper and lower covers decorated in blind; rebacked in 20th century, spine lettered 'Anatomy R. Bean'.
653 # # $a Anatomy
655 # 0 $a Manuals - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Lithographs - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Bean $e previous owner $e donor
700 1 # $a Renshaw $e publisher
700 1 # $a Savill $e printer
700 1 # $a Hanhart $e lithographic printer
700 1 # $a Hanhart $e lithographic printer
700 1 # $a Fergusson $e dedicatee
710 2 # $a Hanhart $e lithographic printer