OLIVER, Pen [pseud. Sir Henry Thompson]

“All but.” A chronicle of Laxenford life.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886. 8vo. [viii], 325, [3], 43, [3] pp., including half-title and 43 pages publisher’s advertisements. With frontispiece and 20 plates. Original publisher’s cloth, top edges uncut. Item #11694

Second edition. Thompson (1820-1904) was an English surgeon and professor at the Royal College of Physicians, specializing in surgery of the genito-urinary tract and of the bladder. The plates were all executed by the author, the last being a self-portrait. BMC, XVIII, 347; Osler, 5515.

Price: $75.00