‘The whole dowry of all nature’
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Chapter 12, ‘The whole dowry of all nature: Opera omnia (1676–1720)’ provides a detailed bibliography, using the system described in chapter 4, of fifteen copies of Willis’s collected works in Latin, the eighth publication, containing treatises: 1–13, variously including William Croone’s treatise De ratione motus musculorum, and with the Latin translation of A plain and easie method for preserving those that are well from the infection of the plague also present in one edition (1695). These descriptions are preceded by a narrative highlighting the main bibliographic issues that characterize the various editions, states, and issues of these copies. Of these, some are already known but others newly identified. {100 words}