12mo. xvi, 188pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf. A trifle rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplate of Tollemache to FEP, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to recto of FFEP.

Initially published in 1618, the Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis was the first standardised national pharmaceutical work, printed by royal decree, and aimed at standardising practice.

Compiled by members of the Royal College of Physicians of London with the primary intention of regulating the composition of medicinal compounds, the work had the subsidiary aim of enforcing the College's monopoly, recently threatened by the newly founded Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.