Economy (The)

Economy (The) of the Hands and Feet, Fingers and Toes. Which includes the prevention, treatment, and cure, of corns, bunnions, and deformed nails; the removal of excrescences… By an old army surgeon. Third edition, carefully revised, corrected, and enlarged.

London: Published by Effingham Wilson… .1831

12mo, pp. xx, 130, lithographed frontispiece. 36 pages of publisher’s adverts inserted at the end. Small piece torn from upper margin of preface leaf, otherwise a very good copy. Original blue printed decorative boards, rubbed, spine neatly restored preserving part of the original backstrip. Bookplates of J. Colin Dagnall, the historian of chiropody (see below), and F. Paul French.

Third edition, in the year following the first.

£150.00

In stock

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