On the improvement and preservation of the female figure : with a new mode of treatment of lateral curvature of the spine / by G. Borlase Childs.

  • Childs, G. B. (George Borlase), 1816-1888.
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On the improvement and preservation of the female figure : with a new mode of treatment of lateral curvature of the spine / by G. Borlase Childs. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : C. & T. Hatchard Palmer, Gracechurch Street, [between 1847 and 1860]

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xi, 1 unnumbered page, 188 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 5, that is, 6 pagesleaves of plates : illustrations (lithographs) ; 20 cm (12mo)

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Description of plates, p. [189], in which nos. v-vi correspond to unnumbered plate and plate v respectively
"Printed by R. Macdonald, 30, Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell"--colophon
Author is described on t.p. as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons; he became a Fellow on December 10 1846.--Printer was active at this address 1826-1860 (see Brown, P.: London publishers and printers, p. 119). Thus the date of publication is apparently between 1847-1860
T.p. is a cancel. An earlier ed. with the same pagination was published in London by Harvey & Darton, 1840; this may be a re-issue of the sheets from that ed. Their address was also Gracechurch Street and they published under that name until 1847.--see Brown, p. 85.
Copy 1 Note: Binding: Original cloth. Author's unsigned presentation inscription to MSL on t.p

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