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Hardcover, octavo size volume bound in red top grain genuine cowhide, with bound in silk ribbon marker, marbled end leaves designed by Richard J. Wolfe and all edges gilt. Cover design and production by Daniel B. Bianchi and Sema Ordewer, with brass-stamped gilt covers and spine stamped in 22kt gold. 473 pages. Index. Special facsimile limited edition printed for The Classics of Medicine Library (1995), First edition thus, prepared from the first edition of 1859 furnished to the Publisher courtesy of The Francis A. Countway Library, Harvard University. Previous subscriber’s book-plate affixed to third blank prelim indicating that this is copy 921 of an unspecified limitation. The present title by American physician Austin Flint is considered a foundational milestone in nineteenth-century cardiology. A pristine, gift quality copy. As new.