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Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata.The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures.
Birmingham, Printed by J. Baskerville; London, S. Baker and G. Leigh [etc.] 1774.
"Hunter originally trained as Smellie's assistant. Once he achieved brilliant professional and financial success he became a great collector of rare books, coins, and paintings. Reflecting Hunter's interests in anatomical art and fine printing, this work contains 34 copper plates depicting the gravid uterus, life-size. It is William Hunter's best work and one of the finest anatomical atlases ever to be produced, "anatomically exact and artistically perfect" (Choulant).
Except for H. Dalby's little book, Virtues of cinnabar and musk against the bite of a mad dog, 1762, it is the only medical publication to come from the famous Baskerville Press. The letterpress is in both Latin and English. The plates are engraved by several artists from drawings by Jan van Rymsdyk. The Sydenham Society published a reprint of the atlas in 1851" (Morton's Medical Bibliography, Fifth Edition, Edited by Jeremy M. Norman)..
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