A beautiful Easton-style leather-bound reproduction of the 1785 landmark medical text An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of Its Medical Uses by William Withering, M.D., famed for his pioneering study of digitalis in treating heart disease.
This Classics of Medicine Library edition is privately printed for members, bound in full burgundy leather with 22k gilt decoration, raised spine bands, and marbled endpapers. Gilt page edges, satin ribbon marker, and high-quality acid-neutral paper throughout.
Includes facsimile title pages of the 1785 Birmingham edition, and a special bookplate numbered 1364 in the library of Carole A. Dullea, M.D.
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Features:
•Full leather binding with elaborate gilt botanical design of the foxglove plant
•All edges gilt
•Marbled endpapers
•Archival-quality acid-free paper
•Ribbon marker bound in
•Numbered copy (#1364) from The Classics of Medicine Library