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Jokings Apart, With a Poem of Farewell to the Author

Author(s):

Whitnall, S E; Leacock, Stephen

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Good

Dust Jacket:

Dust Jacket Condition:

N/A

Dust Jacket Protection:

N/A

Edition:

1st Edition

Impression:

1st Impression

Signature:

None

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

The Alden Press

Publication Year:

1950

Publication Place:

Oxford, UK

ISBN:

–

Book ID:

030901

Catalogue(s):

Science – History of Science

£14.50

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First edition. 144pp, with monochrome portrait plate frontispiece. Inblue cloth-covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine. 16mo. Cloth lightly worn, rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends, sunned over spine obscuring titles. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

Samuel Ernest Whitnall was a leading British anatomist, the first to identify a tubercle on the zygomatic bone. and author of one of the most influencial books on anatomy of the first part of the 20th century, Tje Anatomy of the Human Orbit and Accessory Organs of Vision (1932). This volume contains some 40 of his more whimiscal thoughts on anatomy and also includes a poem written by his friend the poet Stephen Leacock to mark his departure from McGill University in Canada to take up the Chair of Anatomy at Bristol University in 1934.

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