{"id":2344,"date":"2011-02-16T10:51:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T16:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2011-02-16T10:51:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T16:51:18","slug":"john-martin-rare-book-room-news-notes-feb-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2011\/02\/16\/john-martin-rare-book-room-news-notes-feb-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"John Martin Rare Book Room- News Notes, Feb 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le Boursier, a prominent Parisian midwife, first published the present work in 1759 without illustrations. The success of the book encouraged her to have later editions illustrated by Jean Robert (fl. 1746-1782).\u00a0 The 1769 edition was the first book on midwifery to appear with plates printed in multiple colors. Robert, a pupil of Le Blon, is known to have illustrated only three books and this was his most copiously illustrated book. The finely applied colors often appear to be hand-painted rather than pr<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2011\/02\/Coudray-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2345 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2011\/02\/Coudray-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2011\/02\/Coudray-22.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2011\/02\/Coudray-22-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2011\/02\/Coudray-22-1024x918.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2011\/02\/Coudray-22-334x300.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a>inted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Boursier, a prominent Parisian midwife, first published the present work in 1759 without illustrations. The success of the book encouraged her to have later editions illustrated by Jean Robert (fl. 1746-1782).\u00a0 The 1769 edition was the first book on midwifery to appear with plates printed in multiple colors. Robert, a pupil of Le Blon,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2011\/02\/16\/john-martin-rare-book-room-news-notes-feb-2011\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;John Martin Rare Book Room- News Notes, Feb 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}