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Hardcover, dark blue leather decorated in gold, with 5 raised bands on spine. Brand new copy in publisher’s shrink wrap, including custom unused book-plate personalized for the subscriber of this copy. 502 pages. All edges gilt. Illustrated. Facsimile special limited edition, this being copy 921, as identified on book-plate. Published 1997 by The Classics of Medicine Library. Polish born Kazimierz Funk was a ” biochemist generally credited with being among the first to formulate the concept of vitamins (the first being the English chemist Frederick Gowland Hopkins) after publishing a landmark medical writing in 1912.” Pristine new copy in factory shrink wrap.