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Smallpox & Vaccination.- Jenner (Rev. George Charles) The Evidence at Large, as Laid Before the Committee of the House of Commons, Respecting Dr Jenner's Discovery of Vaccine Inoculation, first edition, half-title, presentation copy from Edward Jenner inscribed "The Revd. Mr Rowland Hill, with Dr Jenner's best Respects" on half-title (last word slightly cropped), errata leaf at end, with 2 engraved portraits of Edward Jenner bound in, foxed at beginning, modern blue morocco, 8vo, 1805.

⁂ Rev. George Charles Jenner was Edward Jenner's nephew.

Rev.Rowland Hill (1744-1833), clergyman and evangelical preacher, and an influential advocate of smallpox vaccination who proposed inoculating his congregation. The postal reformer, Rowland Hill, was named after him.

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Smallpox & Vaccination.- Jenner (Rev. George Charles) The Evidence at Large...Respecting Dr Jenner's Discovery of Vaccine Inoculation, presentation copy from Edward Jenner to Rev. Rowland Hill, 1805.  

Hammer Price: £3,500

Description

Smallpox & Vaccination.- Jenner (Rev. George Charles) The Evidence at Large, as Laid Before the Committee of the House of Commons, Respecting Dr Jenner's Discovery of Vaccine Inoculation, first edition, half-title, presentation copy from Edward Jenner inscribed "The Revd. Mr Rowland Hill, with Dr Jenner's best Respects" on half-title (last word slightly cropped), errata leaf at end, with 2 engraved portraits of Edward Jenner bound in, foxed at beginning, modern blue morocco, 8vo, 1805.

⁂ Rev. George Charles Jenner was Edward Jenner's nephew.

Rev.Rowland Hill (1744-1833), clergyman and evangelical preacher, and an influential advocate of smallpox vaccination who proposed inoculating his congregation. The postal reformer, Rowland Hill, was named after him.

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