A Brief Account of Mr. Valentine Greatrak's (1723 reprint) title page

period print · 1723

type:period print

year:1723

citation:Greatrakes, Valentine. A Brief Account of Mr. Valentine Greatrak's, and Divers of the Strange Cures by Him Lately Performed. Written by Himself in a Letter Addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq. London: Printed and Sold by J. Downing in Bartholomew Close, near West-Smithfield, 1723 [reprint of the 1666 first edition]. Digitized copy: Internet Archive item b30774639 (Wellcome/Medical Heritage Library); Wikimedia Commons file record.

LINK

https://archive.org/details/b30774639

SUMMARY

Title page of a 1723 reprint edition of Greatrakes's own 1666 letter to Robert Boyle, printed and sold by J. Downing of Bartholomew Close, near West-Smithfield -- a distinct printing from Wellcome's 1666 J. Starkey first edition (separately catalogued and cited in this case). Read directly from the digitized page image (page 1 of the scanned volume); imprint and date confirmed by direct visual inspection. Wikimedia Commons file metadata (Public Domain Mark, Internet Archive identifier b30774639) fetched directly via the Commons API; the Internet Archive holding record is used here as the archive link per the Commons-to-holding-record preference. Used as the case's artifact image.

NOTES

Rights confirmed directly from the Wikimedia Commons API imageinfo extmetadata: License “pd” / Public Domain Mark, Credit points to Internet Archive identifier b30774639. Downloaded at the 500px-wide thumbnail size generated by Wikimedia (500x936px; a larger pre-rendered size was not available from the thumbnail cache). The title page image itself was inspected directly (vision pass) and its printed imprint (J. Downing, Bartholomew Close, near West-Smithfield, dated 1723) read off the page; the caption and year in this case are dated to this 1723 printing, not assumed to be the 1666 original.