Description

Hardcover, red leather with raised spine stamped in gold and with brass-die cover stampings in 22kt gold, from designs by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer. All edges gilt. Bound in ribbon marker and specially commissioned marbled end-papers by Richard J. Wolfe complete this quality edition. 79 and 108 pages respectively. Illustrated with frontispiece and four fold-out floor plans at the end of second title. Special limited edition published for The Classics of Medicine Library, 1982, of the works originally published in 1859, courtesy of the Yale medical Library. This is copy 921 as indicated on personalized subscriber’s book-plate, unused and laid-in loose. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh unmarked and like new copy. As new.