Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections

Title: W. P. Cocks A Concise Treatise on Operative Surgery working copy

Creator: Cocks, W. P.

Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0062

Physical Description: 1 unknown (1 manuscript)

Date (inclusive): circa 1834-1842

Language of Material: English .

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UCLA Catalog Record ID: 7462347 

Collection consists of a manuscript in three parts.

"Larding the relevant printed leaves and plates of his 1831 'Illustrations of Mr. S. Cooper's surgical dictionary' with blanks, [W.P. (William Pennington) Cocks (1791-1878)] undertook rounds of writing in, at least, 1834, 1837, and 1842, states recorded in manuscript on the printed title pages as 'second', 'third', and 'fourth' editions. The text on the forty-seven leaves of manuscript, some 7000 words, appeared in 'A Concise treatise'. Where the author directed the typesetter to put specific passages into italic--sometimes by switching the color of the ink and sometimes by explicit instruction--the text was, in the event, indented and printed in smaller Roman type. The annotations, emendations, and enlargements made to the 1831 printed text, over 4000 words, remained unpublished. cocks signed most of the drawings, and in three instances entirely covered-over lithograph images with manuscript text (by way of cancellation?) and supplied revised images in their stead. Two [bound] volumes and a folder include at least three original drawings for published lithographs as well as two proof plates containing errors corrected prior to the appearance of 'A Concise treatise'. In 1843, due to ill health, Cocks returned to natural history and circulated a number of privately-issued papers on conchology, botany, and zoology."--All quoted content descriptions are from antiquarian bookseller's description, 2014.

[Part 1]: "Cocks, William Pennington. 'Illustrations of Mr. Cooper's surgical dictionary' with printed title canceled and replaced in manuscript to read: 'Surgical anatomy of the organs of generation, etc. Second Edition [canceled in manuscript and replaced below with:] 3d Edition.' [The original imprint:] 'London: Published by Longman, Rees, and Co., Paternoster-Row, 1831' -- printed date altered in manuscript to '1834' and dates '1831' and '1837' added in manuscript. 8vo. Thirty-two printed leaves of text, one leaf of text laid in, thirty-three manuscript leaves of text, twenty-six blank leaves, and forty-six plates--thirty-four lithographs (two colored by hand) and twelve drawings (two colored by hand). Contemporary half-calf and marbled boards (worn, rebacked)."

[Part 2]: "Cocks, William Pennington. 'Illustrations of Mr. Cooper's surgical dictionary' with printed title canceled and replaced in manuscript to read: 'Surgical anatomy of the organs of hernia, etc. 4th Edition. [The original imprint:] 'London: Published by Longman, Rees, and Co., Paternoster-Row, 1831' -- printed date altered in manuscript to '1834' and dates '1831 -- 1837 -- 1842' added in manuscript. 8vo. Twelve printed leaves of text, one leaf of text laid in, thirteen manuscript leaves of text and a half sheet, fifty-two blank leaves and twenty-eight plates--fifteen lithographs (one colored by hand) and thirteen drawings (six colored by hand). Contemporary half-calf and marbled boards (worn, rebacked)."

[Part 3]: "Cocks, William Pennington. One leaf of manuscript written on both sides, eight leaves of Cocks's drawings (with twenty-six figures), one engraved plate of a hernia truss captioned in Latin, four lithograph plates of skin diseases (West, Newman & Co. printers, E. Burgess lithographer; four figures in color and three monochrome). Marbled paper folder, green silk ties."