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Hardcover, octavo size volume bound in blue 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 Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer, with raised spine and covers stamped in 22kt gold. 379 pages. Illustrated. Special limited edition printed for The Classics of Medicine Library (1991), First edition thus, prepared from an original 1910 first edition, furnished to the Publisher courtesy of the Historical Collections of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia . Previous subscriber’s unused personalized book-plate laid-in loose, indicating that this is copy 921 of a limited edition (of an unspecified limitation) from The Classics of Medicine Library. “Widely considered a seminal medical text that revolutionized the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of peptic ulcer disease in the early 20th century.” A pristine, gift quality copy. As new.