From Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 30 August 1999
About this Item
Rebacked in the contemporary style with paper spine label. Original blue paper-covered boards. Top edge trimmed, others uncut. Title-page vignette of cane head. Previous owner's name, dated 1828, at top of title-page. From the notice, "A short time before the opening of the New College of Physicians, Mrs. Baillie presented to that learned body a Gold-Headed Cane, which had been successively carried by Drs. Radcliffe, Mead, Askew, Pitcairn, and her own lamented husband. The arks of these celebrated Physicians are engraved on the head of the Cane, and they form the vignettes of the five chapters into which this little volume has been divided. The drawings from which the wood-cuts were made are by Mr. Brooke." Chapterrs on each of the five owners. Several text wood-cut illustration. 179pp. See also Garrison-Morton 6709, Osler 6717. Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 013657
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE GOLD-HEADED CANE
Publisher: John Murray, London
Publication Date: 1827
Binding: 1/2 Brown Paper, Blue Boards
Condition: Light Wear and Scuffing
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition.
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