The Life of Sir William Osler. 2 vols. ...

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

Oxford: Oxford University Press 1925. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth (edges lightly worn). Dustjackets (toned spines; light shelf soiling). With frontisps. and tissue-guards and 39 full-page plates. 1st ed. 2nd impression. Crude tape repair on back cover of Volume II dustjacket. Foxed endpapers. Some plates foxed with toning. A very good set especially with the rare dustjackets. NOTE: Only a few books each decade survive initial acclaim and achieve classic rank. Dr. Harvey Cushing's "Life of Sir William Osler" is such a book winning the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.