Tuson, Myology (1825) and Supplement to Myology (1828)
Myology, Illustrated by Plates. In Four Parts. Part I. Muscles of the Anterior and Posterior Part of the Thigh, Leg, and Foot. Part II. Muscles of the Anterior and Posterior Part of the Arm and Hand. Part III. Muscles of the Abdomen an:d Back. Part IV. Muscles of the Face and Eye, Anterior and Posterior Part of the Neck, with the Muscles of the Perineum, Completing the Whole of the Muscles of Human Body. By Edward William Tuson, House Surgeon to the Middlesex Hosptial. London: Published by Callow and Wilson, Medical Booksellers, 16 Princes Street, Soho. 1825.
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A Supplement to Myology; Containing the Arteries, Veins, Nerves, and Lymphatics of the Human Body, the Abdominal & Thoracic Viscera, The Ear and Eye, The Brain, and The Gravid Uterus, with the Foetal Circulation. By Edward William Tuson, Lecturer on Anatomy & Physiology, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, &c. &c. London: Published by Callow and Wilson, Medical Booksellers, 16, Princes Street, Soho. 1828.
Myology:
Brown quarter leather with mottled paper over boards. Faded red title label with gold text and raised bands on spine. Reduced facsimile of title page on center of front board. Corners bumped. New end papers. Library stamp on title and preface. Some mild toning and foxing. A few stray pencil lines (probably from being employed to lift the flaps), a few aberrant creases and small marginal tears on some of the flaps, but all still attached.
New ffep, title, preface, dedication leaf (to J.C. Carpue), dedication leaf (to Middlesex hospital), 8 plates with 8 corresponding pages of textual explanations, new rfep.
Supplement:
Brown quarter leather with marbled paper over boards. Title plate and stamped date on spine. New end papers. Paper repairs to margins of title page. Stamped Glasgow University Library at bottom of title page. Irregular dark stain on blank verso of plate nine (possibly old mildew, not affecting plate). Some mild foxing and toning but otherwise clean, bright, and tight throughout. All flaps intact. Plate 2 folding. Plates 1, 5, 7, and 8 printed on verso. All others on recto. Nine anatomic plates, in colors, with elaborately layered flaps to expose successively deeper anatomic structures.
New ffep, title, dedication leaf (to the Royal College of Surgeons), 9 plates with p corresponding pages of textual explanations, new rfep.
Measures: 21 ¼ x 14 ½ x ¾ inches.
Heirs 913 is the 2nd edition of Tuson’s Myology: “Edward William Tuson (1802 – 1865). Myology. 2nd ed. London: Callow and Wilson, 1828. [2] 8 ll., 8 col plates. 53.8 cm. This unusual teaching atlas by English anatomist, Tuson, depicts the somatic musculature in colored lithographs, printed on flaps and mounted in layers on figures of the skeleton. It is unusual to find the moving parts intact and preserved. Choulant-Frank p. 234: Cushing T196”
