Description

Hardcover, bound in dark blue top-grain cowhide with all edges gilt, raised spine lettered in gold and covers stamped in 22kt gold. 241 pages. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker and specially commissioned marbled end-papers by Richard J. Wolfe. Several illustrations. This special limited edition was prepared for the subscriber’s to The Classics of Modern Medicine Library, utilizing the first edition of 1905 courtesy of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. Original owner’s book-plate affixed to blank verso of front free marbled end-paper, indicating that this is copy 921. Publisher’s 13 page explanatory pamphlet “Notes from the Editors” laid-in loose. First edition thus. A single short scratch to gilt at bottom edge, else a clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Fine.