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Paperback / softback. New.

London: J Callow. Worn condition. Cover rubbed and detached. Spine missing. Browning to prelims. Plates bright and content in overll good condition. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 1810. Second Edition. Half leather marbled board cover. 220mm x 130mm (9" x 5"). xxii, 300pp + errata page. 8 plates, including 3 fold out. .

London : C Dilly, 1794 A fair copy of the 1st edition of this extremely scarce work. Edward Ford (1746 -1809) was a London surgeon. He became a Member of the Court Assistants of the Royal College of Surgeons and was Surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary from 1780 - 1801. This work, based on his experience, was extremely popular and 2 further printings were organised by his nephew. This copy came from the Library of the Richmond Physical Society, Dublin, which was founded in 1812 at the Richmond Surgical Hospital, House of Industry. It has their bookplate on the front pastedown and House of Industry (or workhouse) stamps to the title page, p 229 and the reverse of one plate. It has been bound in a new plain buckram binding, with gilt titles and new endpapers. The binding is in very good condition. Internally: title page, dedication, preface pp vii-xvi, contents, errata, text pp 1 - 258 (including plate descriptions) and 6 of 8 plates (lacking plates 6 and 7, one of which is folding). The… Read More