Title page and frontispiece of Aristotle's Master-piece improved. (London: Printed, and sold by the book sellers, [1766]).  The frontispiece is a woodcut image showing a scholar in a library at a desk writing with a quill pen with a hirsute nude woman standing to his left and a black child standing to her left with a window behind them showing the sun shining in.  NLM Call number: WZ 260 A718m 1766.

Pseudo-Aristotle Aristotle’s Master-piece improved. (London: Printed, and sold by the book sellers, [1766]).

Aristotle’s Master-piece first appeared in England in the 1690s as a popular guide to human reproduction.


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