Weeks Clara Compiler (2 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 391 pages, with frontispiece, folding plate, colour plate, and 6 pages of ads at rear. Second edition, "revised and enlarged with illustrations". Light rubbing only; light toning from newspaper clipping to pages 136, 137. Binding is sound; no inscriptions.

391, [7] pp. Vocabulary & Index conclude text. 4 pages of adverts at rear. Frontis. Intra-textual cuts. Charts, including one inserted fold-out. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5" "The great advances in medical science, and more particularly in the practice of surgery, during the half-dozen years since this book was first offered for the use of nurses [1885], have rendered necessary a thorough revision, many things in the old edition being now entirely out of date, while other methods of treatment have come into vogue with which every nurse needs to be acquainted." [Preface]. Minor extremity wear. Hinges professionally reinforced. Early pos to preliminary blank. A few PO notes to rear blank. Withal, a Very Good copy. Original publisher's maroon cloth with gilt letter & vignette to front board 1st printing of the Revised & Enlarged Second edition.