The anatomist: or, The sham doctor. /
Ravenscroft, Edward,1654?-1707.
Motteux, Peter Anthony,1660-1718.Loves of Mars & Venus.
London : Printed, and are to be sold by R. Baldwin, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick lane,
1697.
Part 2, The loves of Mars & Venus by Peter Motteux has separate dated title page, pagination, and register. According to its preface it 'was written to be inserted into a very short farce written by Mr. Ravenscroft, called The Anatomist or the Sham Doctor'.
The edition of The loves of Mars & Venu" published with The Anatomist is a reissue of 1696 edition (Wing M2954) with the following alterations: the first 2 lines and the last 2 lines of the title page have been reset; the prologue and epilogue, which were on leaf b1r, have been omitted since they appear in the preliminaries of "The anatomist" (*a1v-*a2r); the balance of the preliminaries are imposed differently: A1 (title page) is a single leaf, the original A2 and a1 are now a gathering signed a, and the original a2 and b2 are now a gathering signed B. In the 1697 reissue of The loves of Mars & Venus (Wing M2955) the preliminaries are identical to those described here, and it too may have been issued with The anatomist.
Signatures: pi² a*² B*-L*²; chi¹ a² B² ²B-H².
Wing (2nd ed.)
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