Author: GARTH Dr. Samuel :
Title: The Dispensary, A Poem. In Six Canto's. The Ninth Edition. With several Descriptions and Episodes never before printed.
Description: .: 5. London; Printed for J.T. and Sold by Tho.Astley..., 1726, in-12°, (24) + 84 pp with an engraved frontispiece and 6 other engraved plates . Bound with; Compleat key to the Dispensary. London, T. Wotton, ..1726, 35 pp. 2 parts in one volume. Contemporary full calf, raised back with gilt title and ornaments, red leather title label, marbled endpapers. (Nice copy). Samuel Garth (1661-1719), physician in ordinary to George I, first published his famous and popular poem in 1699. The sixth edition (1706) was the first to claim ''descriptions and episodes never before printed''. .

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