Description

Hardcover, bound in genuine blue top-grain cowhide, with all edges gilt and covers stamped in 22kt gold. 519 pages. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker and specially commissioned marbled end-papers by Richard J. Wolfe. This special limited edition was prepared from the first American edition of 1988 and printed especially for the subscribers of The Classics of Medicine Library. First edition thus. Essentially a series of medical biographies told over the course of 15 chapters, beginning with Hippocrates and ending with Helen Taussig, the founder of pediatric cardiology, and the various individuals who pioneered the ongoing science of organ transplant. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and unread copy. As new.