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001 $ 03/6639
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220113124227.1
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a bell
245 1 0 $a Engravings Explaining The Anatomy Of The Bones, Muscles, And Joints. By John Bell, Surgeon.
260 # # $a Edinburgh: $b Printed By John Patterson; For Bell and Bradfute, And T. Duncan; And J. Johnson, And G.G.G. & J. Robinsons, London. $c M DCC XCIV. $c [1794]
300 # # $a [6], xxii, [ii], 191 p., 12 [i.e. 15], 13 [i.e. 14], 3 pl.: $b illus.; $c 263 mm. (Quarto).
500 # # $a In the first group of numbered plates there are bis pl. 1, 5, 6; in the second group there is a bis pl. 3.
505 0 # $a [T.p., dedic.] - Errata - Preface - [Text, with pl.].
508 # # $a Most plates are signed as engraved by J. Bell; a few, as engraved by I. Beugo. Of the two in-text illustrations one is signed 'JB', the other is unsigned. In his Preface (page xx) Bell states, 'I have drawn my plates with my own hand. I have engraved some of these plates, and etched almost the whole of them', and 'I must not be ungrateful to Mr. Beugo ... wherever in these plates all is fair and clean, it is owing to his care'.

All plates except one (plate 9 of the second series) carry the publishers' imprint, 'Published for Longman & Rees 1804'.

The publishers 'G.G.G. and J. Robinsons' are probably the firm of George Robinson (1736-1801) and his partners - his son, George, and two brothers, John and James.

The work is dedicated by the author to Dr. Daniel Rutherford.
510 4 # $a ESTC $c N1322
510 4 # $a M. Cazort, The ingenious machine of nature: four centuries of art and anatomy [exhibition catalogue] (Ottawa, 1996), p. 28, 53, 92-103, 234-7
510 4 # $a K.B. Roberts and J.D.W. Tomlinson, The fabric of the body: European traditions of anatomical illustration (1992), p. 488-95
510 3 # $a L. Rosner, Medical education in the age of improvement: Edinburgh students and apprentices 1760-1826 (1991).
520 2 # $a The publication-date of 1794 is carried by the title page, but each plate carries the publishers' imprint and date of 1804 (except pl. 9 of the second series, which is undated).

Bell's plates show his bodies as dead - rather than following an earlier convention in which the muscles are shown as contracted and functioning - and have been described as 'evoking the ghoulish creations of Gothic novels'.

Benjamin Robert Haydon acquired Bell's Engravings Explaining The Anatomy in 1804 and later used it in his school.
561 # # $a Purchased for the Royal Academy Library in 1881 (see RA Annual Report for 1881, p. 46).
562 # # $a There are annotations in ink or pencil in an unknown hand on pages 35, 38, 55, 69, 72, 94-101, 108, 119, 134, 138, 146, 156, 159, 168, 173-175, 177, 190.
563 # # $a 19th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; rebacked and recornered in 1990 by AW[essely], red morocco spine-label lettered 'Bell's Anatomy'.
653 # # $a Anatomy
655 # 4 $a Manuals - Great Britain - 18th century
655 # 4 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century
700 1 # $a Patterson, John $e printer
700 1 # $a Duncan $e publisher
700 1 # $a Johnson $e publisher
700 1 # $a Robinson, George $e publisher
700 1 # $a Beugo, John $e engraver
700 1 # $a Rutherford, Daniel $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Bell, John $e publisher
700 1 # $a Bradfute $e publisher
700 1 # $a Robinson, George $e publisher
700 1 # $a Robinson, John $e publisher
700 1 # $a Robinson, James $e publisher
700 1 # $a Wessely $e binder
710 2 # $a Bell and Bradfute $e publisher
710 2 # $a Longman and Rees $e publisher