Description

Hardcover, bound in genuine brown top-grain cowhide, with all edges gilt and covers brass-die stamped in 22kt gold. 314 pages. Index. Trilingual edition with aphorisms in Greek, Latin and English. Illustrated with tipped-in color frontispiece, being a 14th century reproduction of a Byzantine portrait of Hippocrates. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker, raised spine hubs and specially commissioned marbled end-papers by Richard J. Wolfe. This special facsimile limited edition was prepared from an original edition of 1822 furnished to the publisher courtesy of the Yale Medical Library. First edition thus, number 921, though the original subscriber’s book-plate is lacking from this copy, the other 150 odd titles in his collection from the Classics of Medicine Library were numbered as such (usually with book-plates laid-in loose and unused). No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and unread copy. As new.