Description

Hardcover, folio size volume bound in genuine top-grain black leather with raised spine stamped in 22kt gold and cover stampings and design by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer. 252 pages. All edges gilt. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker and specially commissioned marbled end-papers by Iris Nevins. Illustrated with 96 full page black and white plates, with accompanying explanatory letterpress. Special limited edition published for The Classics of Medicine Library, 1993; a facsimile of the 1950 first edition. A quality limited edition of Renaissance anatomical illustration, representing a significant milestone in the history of medicine. No previous ownership marks, albeit publisher’s personalized, unused book-plate laid-in loose, indicating that this is copy 921. A clean, fresh unmarked and unread like new copy. As new.