Medicine, Morality, and the Book Trade Tapa dura - 1998

158 pp. Hardcover, bound in printed boards. An unmarked copy.

Oak Knoll Press, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket/No Dustjacket. Crisp and clean; no owners' marks; glossy hard cover bears a few spots of wear at corners and spine ends and a few crimps at the spine head, otherwise excellent. Skipping the now anciently silly questions like whether books will survive the digital age, are evil, or cause madness, this book dives straight into the causal, coincidental, and cultural links between literacy, professionality, and what used to be the youngest science.

Folkestone, Kent, U. K. / New Castle, Delaware: St. Paul's Bibliographies / Oak Knoll Press, 1998. Brand New. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 1998. First Edition. Papers from the annual conference on book-trade history held at the Society of Antiquaries of London headquarters, organized through the University of London. Contains an introduction and seven essays, as follows: 1) PRINTERS' DISEASES: THE HUMAN COST OF A MECHANICAL PROCESS by Michael Harris; PILLS AND PRINT by Peter Isaac; MORTALITY AND THE MENTAL MAP OF LONDON: RICHARD SMYTH'S OBITUARY by Vanessa Harding; MEDICAL INCUNABULA by Lotte Hellinga; BETWEEN THE MARKET AND THE ACADEMY: ROBERT S. WHIPPLE (1871-1953) AS A COLLECTOR OF SCIENCE BOOKS by Silvia De Renzi; 'THESE CRAFTY DEALERS' SIR HENRY WELLCOME AS A BOOK COLLECTOR by John Symons; and READING: A HEALTH WARNING by Roy… Leer más

Glossy illustrated boards, octavo, pp. xii, 158. Black and white illustrations. Dust jacket was not issued with this title.