[TREASURE]

Here begynneth a good booke of medecines called the Treasure of pore men.

      [colophon:] London, William Myddylton, 13 December 1544 8vo (128 x 86 mm), ff [4] 80, woodcut border beneath title, black letter; some light marginal waterstaining, upper margins of last third strengthened on some leaves, affecting a few letters, bound in dark brown crushed morocco. £8500 One of several early editions (first ca 1526; 15 up to 1575) of this rare work, an anonymous popular compendium describing diseases and the appropriate remedies. It is an important source for knowledge of Tudor medical practices, diet, and food plants. All editions are rare; there is only one auction record for any edition, a poor copy, in 1981 (£1500). STC 24203 (four locations, British Library, Oxford, and Rylands Library Manchester; Stephen Cox, imperfect); OCLC lists for North America the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and Ohio State (lacing all before C2, the imperfect copy in STC)