Description

Hardcover, black cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust-jacket. 320 pages. Bibliography, Glossary, Index. Bound-in satin ribbon marker. Illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings, engravings and color plates. First edition, first printing with no other printings listed. “A compilation and analysis of medical allusions, physician characters (including Shakespeare’s real-life son-in-law, John Hall), and health conditions across [Shakespeare’s] plays and poems.” (AI summation) “Reviewers in publications like CHEST Journal and the JAMA Network describe it as an engaging, well-presented “potpourri” that follows in the tradition of earlier medical studies of the Bard (such as Bucknill and Simpson).” (Chest Journal, et al.). Book is clean, tight and appears unread. Dust-jacket possibly sunned, based on all images consulted online, albeit pattern is so uniform on both front and rear covers that it may be by design. In any event an as new copy in an otherwise fine dust-jacket.