TUBBY, A[lfred] H[erbert].

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd... .1896

8vo, pp. xxii, 598, (2) adverts, 16 plates (numbered to 15, plate 2 has two figures), with 302 figures in the text. Original blue quarter morocco and cloth sides (morocco spine renewed), t.e.g., two modern bookplates. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title: “C.E. Beevor, with the author’s kind regards. August 1896.”

FIRST EDITION. G&M 4366. “An excellent text-book” (Keith, Menders of the maimed), which includes a valuable discussion of congenital anomalies of the bones and joints from the orthopaedic point of view. The second edition of 1912 was expanded to two volumes. Charles Edward Beevor was physician to the National Hospital, Queen Square, London.

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