The Household Physician: A Family Guide to the Preservation of Health and to the Domestic Treatment of Ailments and Disease

Second (revised and enlarged) edition. xxxii, 1,104pp, thirty plates in colour and black and white; 4pp architect’s rendering tipped-in at page 714; 6pp tipped-in at rear. Quarter-bound in green leather over brown cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine; marbled text block edges. 4to. . Sun-faded and worn spine. Lightly bumped, rubbed and scuffed spine ends. Lightly bumped, rubbed and cloth worn through at board edges and corners. Text block edges tanning. Signature binding. Endpapers tanned and foxed; more so at rear. Hinges stretched at endpapers. One signature in text block separated at lower stitching from pages 443 to 449. Foxing throughout; intensity varies greatly. Previous owner’s initials on front pastedown. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations in text throughout.