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Hardcover, bound in green top grain genuine cowhide, with all edges gilt and covers brass-die stamped in 22kt gold. 367 pages, plus a 4 page booksellers catalog appended. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker, raised spine hubs and specially commissioned marbled end-papers by Tapley-Rutter, Inc., Bookbinders. This special limited edition was prepared from the original 1812 edition courtesy of the Yale Medical Library. First edition thus of a limited facsimile edition, this being number 921, with original subscriber’s personalized book-plate, bearing limitation number, unused and laid-in loose. The first American textbook on psychiatry, Rush’s treatise drew upon the previous century’s Enlightenment ethos to identify mental illness as a genuine medical condition, not explainable by Biblical commentary or other religious justifications. A clean, fresh and unmarked copy, unread and like new.