[Onwhyn, Thomas, illustrator]. Recollections of the Water Cure, [cover-title], circa 1860, 12 comic lithographed plates, each with humorous caption, bound concertina-style, original cloth-backed black boards, upper cover gilt blocked, rubbed, mainly to edges, 13.7 x 12cm (5.5 x 4.75ins) (Qty: 1) A rare (pirated?) edition of Thomas Onwhyn's Pleasures of the Water Cure, by a Patient who has been Well Drench'd and Wrench'd and restored to Health, published by Rock & Co. around 1857. Curiously some of the plates are a reverse of the original, whilst others are not. The only copy we have traced is that held by the J. Paul Getty Museum.
[Onwhyn, Thomas, illustrator]. Recollections of the Water Cure, [cover-title], circa 1860, 12 comic lithographed plates, each with humorous caption, bound concertina-style, original cloth-backed black boards, upper cover gilt blocked, rubbed, mainly to edges, 13.7 x 12cm (5.5 x 4.75ins) (Qty: 1) A rare (pirated?) edition of Thomas Onwhyn's Pleasures of the Water Cure, by a Patient who has been Well Drench'd and Wrench'd and restored to Health, published by Rock & Co. around 1857. Curiously some of the plates are a reverse of the original, whilst others are not. The only copy we have traced is that held by the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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