The Red Cross

Hardcover, genuine leather binding with raised spine lettered in gilt stamped 22kt gold and cover design and stamping by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer. 684 pages. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker, specially commissioned marbled end-papers designed by Richard J. Wolfe and all edges gilt. Special limited edition , first edition thus prepared from the first edition of 1898, courtesy of the Yale Medical Historical Library.. Publisher’s unused original subscriber’s personalized book-plate laid-in loose, indicating that this is copy 921, printed for members of The Classics of Medicine Library. “A History of this Remarkable International Movement in the Interest of Humanity” . [half-title]. Further publisher’s blurb on title-page reads: “A vivid and authoritative Account of Relief from Suffering by War, Pestilence, Famine, Flood, Fires, and other National Calamities.” No previous ownership marks. A pristine, unread and like new copy. As new.