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Print this item?Physic and Fiction. [Fine Bindings]
Sprigge, S. Squire.
Lodon: 1921, Hodder and Stoughton.
First Edition. xi, 307 pp. Leather. 8vo.
[Medicine - History -Literature]
[Bindings - Fine Leather Bindings]
[Medicine]
[History - Literature]
Contributions to Medicine in context with other disciplines like ethics, literature. Some chapters: Medical Priestcraft; The Old-Fashioned Doctor; Medicine in Fiction; The Medicine of Dickens and a Note on 'Dr. Goodenough'; etc. De luxe red calf custom binding by Sancorski & Sutcliff, London, with 5 raised bands, gilt titles and fine gilt tooling on spine, borders of front and back cover, including fore edges to all sides of covers and on the inside along all edges; year of publication and binding , 1921, in gilt at foot of spine. Top gilt edge. Green end papers, attractive exlibris.
Ca. 2 cm repaired split at top of front cover fold. Some light chafing of leather along edge, a little loss of gilt. A book worm has dug a 1 cm long hole into pages toward the end of the book, from the foot of the fore edge. Generally still a stunning book with little wear.
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