WILLAN, Robert (1757-1812). On Cutaneous Diseases . London: J. Johnson 1808. Volume I (all published), 4 o (268 x 216 mm). 279 leaves (of 281, without the list of the orders of skin diseases and the directions to the binder). 34 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colors and enhanced with hand-coloring. (Occasional foxing, approximately 3 plates cropped touching imprint or plate numbers.) Contemporary English green calf, gilt spine. Provenance : Fletcher Rigge (signature on pastedown, occasional notes in margins); Mary Bedingfeld (signature on pastedown). "Willan established the classification and nomenclature of skin diseases that is still more or less in use today ... A novel feature of his work was his systematic use of illustrations to supplement disease description, an idea entirely new to dermatology at the time; his treatise was also the first dermatological work to be illustrated with colored plates" (Norman). The work was published in four fascicles, beginning in 1798, before it was reprinted in book form in 1808; the present volume corresponds to the collation of the book edition, as detailed in Grolier Medicine . A list of the orders of skin diseases and directions to the binder were supplied on separate leaves, for inclusion both with the book and with copies bound from the parts. Only volume I of Willan's work was published before his early death; the material intended for volume II was taken over and published by Willan's pupil Thomas Bateman (see lot 917). The contemporary binding on this copy of On Cutaneous Diseases is remarkably fine and elaborate for an English medical book of this period. Garrison-Morton 3985; Grolier Medicine 55; Heirs of Hippocrates 1155; Waller 10306; Norman 2241.
WILLAN, Robert (1757-1812). On Cutaneous Diseases . London: J. Johnson 1808. Volume I (all published), 4 o (268 x 216 mm). 279 leaves (of 281, without the list of the orders of skin diseases and the directions to the binder). 34 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colors and enhanced with hand-coloring. (Occasional foxing, approximately 3 plates cropped touching imprint or plate numbers.) Contemporary English green calf, gilt spine. Provenance : Fletcher Rigge (signature on pastedown, occasional notes in margins); Mary Bedingfeld (signature on pastedown). "Willan established the classification and nomenclature of skin diseases that is still more or less in use today ... A novel feature of his work was his systematic use of illustrations to supplement disease description, an idea entirely new to dermatology at the time; his treatise was also the first dermatological work to be illustrated with colored plates" (Norman). The work was published in four fascicles, beginning in 1798, before it was reprinted in book form in 1808; the present volume corresponds to the collation of the book edition, as detailed in Grolier Medicine . A list of the orders of skin diseases and directions to the binder were supplied on separate leaves, for inclusion both with the book and with copies bound from the parts. Only volume I of Willan's work was published before his early death; the material intended for volume II was taken over and published by Willan's pupil Thomas Bateman (see lot 917). The contemporary binding on this copy of On Cutaneous Diseases is remarkably fine and elaborate for an English medical book of this period. Garrison-Morton 3985; Grolier Medicine 55; Heirs of Hippocrates 1155; Waller 10306; Norman 2241.
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