The anatomy of humane bodies with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in Europe and curiously engraven in one hundred and fourteen copper plates

William Cowper's The Anatomy of Humane Bodies… includes 105 copperplates designed and printed by Gérard de Lairesse in Holland for Govard Bidloo's Anatomia Humani Corporis (1685). While the plates were much appreciated, Bidloo's text was criticized. Because of this, Cowper arranged to create a new and improved text in English to accompany a reissue of the original engravings. This reissue, published in Oxford in 1698, was the most elaborate and beautiful of all 17th century English treatises on anatomy. Cowper's English text was also clearly superior, and became the basis for later editions, even those in Latin. Cowper never acknowledged Bidloo which resulted in a bitter plagiarism dispute between the two men, one of the most famous in medical history. This is the second edition published in 1737 with revisions by Albinus.