Description

Hardcover, slim quarto size volume bound in black, elaborately gilt-stamped top grain genuine cowhide, with bound in silk ribbon marker, marbled end leaves in a period design and all edges gilt. Cover design and production by Max M. Stein, with raised spine and covers stamped in 22kt gold. 75 pages. Illustrated with a four full page tinted plates, all with tissue guards intact. Special limited edition printed for The Classics of Medicine Library (1978), First edition thus, prepared from an original 1798 edition, furnished to the Publisher courtesy of The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. Previous subscriber’s book-plate not present albeit others in this collection of The Classics of Medicine Library from the same private collection indicate that this is copy 921 of an unspecified limitation. Jenner’s brief monograph is considered “the foundational text of immunology and the history of vaccination.” The twenty-three human case studies of cowpox inoculation or contraction presented herein supported his core premise and though the original publication was met with underwhelming attention, the practice soon spread throughout England and then the continent. A pristine, gift quality copy. As new.