Description

Hardcover, bound in dark blue top-grain cowhide with all edges gilt, raised spine lettered in gold and covers brass die-stamped in 22kt gold. 685 & 728 pages respectively. Comprehensive index at rear of volume II. Illustrated with photographs. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker and specially commissioned marbled end-papers designed by Richard J. Wolfe. This special limited facsimile was prepared from an original First Edition of 1925.. First edition thus. Original subscriber’s personalized book-plate from the Publisher affixed to blank prelim in each volume, indicating this is copy 921 of an unspecified limitation. Cushing’s biography of his mentor and friend won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and remains the definitive, if uncritical, chronicle of Osler’s life and carreer. A clean, unread and pristine copy; gift quality and like new. A heavy set, Priority and International order will require additional postage charged at actual cost.