Description

Hardcover, genuine tan leather binding with raised spine lettered and stamped in 22kt gold and cover design and stamping by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer in gold. 451 pages. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker, specially commissioned marbled end-papers designed by Richard J. Wolfe and all edges gilt. This special edition is privately printed for members of The Classics of Medicine Library, a facsimile of the first Dublin edition of 1773, courtesy of the Harvey Cushing /John Jay (sic) Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. “A classic text on medicinal substances and their properties, originally delivered as a series of lectures by the renowned Scottish physician William Cullen.” A pristine, unread and like new copy. As new.