Description

Hardcover, bound in genuine red leather, with all edges gilt and covers stamped in 22kt gold. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker and specially commissioned marbled end-papers by Richard J. Wolfe. 571 pages. Bibliography, Notes on Text, Notes to Illustrations, Index. Illustrated. Text prepared from the 1975 first edition published by Harvard University Press as per statement on colophon page (albeit facsimile title-page suggests the first Harvard paperback edition, 1991). Specially published for The Classics of Medicine Library, first limited edition thus. Personalized subscriber’s unused book-plate laid in loose indicating that this is copy 921. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and unread copy. Fine.