Library of Health: Complete Guide to Prevention and Care of Disease Vintage Hardcover 1916 1st edition

Library of Health: Complete Guide to Prevention and Care of Disease

A comprehensive early 20th-century home medical guide containing twenty books compiled into a single massive volume.

Fully illustrated with half-tone photographic plates, color anatomical diagrams, botanical illustrations, and physical culture lessons, this work serves as an informative window into historical medical practices and domestic health care during the Progressive Era.

This volume is suited for collectors of vintage medical history, oddities, or early twentieth-century domestic science.

#### **Book Details**

* **Author:** B. Frank Scholl, Ph.G., M.D. (Editor)

* **Illustrator:** Not explicitly credited; features anatomical, photographic, and botanical plates (some plates copyrighted by E.J. Spangler).

* **Publisher:** Historical Publishing Co.

* **Binding:** Hardcover

* **Edition Points:** Twenty books bound in one volume. Features an early owner inscription on the front flyleaf dated April 10, 1919. Plates carry copyrights circa 1916. First edition.

#### **Condition Report**

* **Overall Grade:** Very Good (VG)

* **Cover & Spine:** The green cloth covers with black textured half-binding elements are well-preserved. There is minor rubbing to the edges and corners, with light shelf-wear to the cloth surface. Spine ends show minor bumping. Gold gilt lettering on the spine remains clear and legible.

* **Dust Jacket:** None (as issued).

* **Text Block & Pages:** Margins are lightly age-toned but clean and uniform. The multi-colored marbled edges of the text block are present and clear. The interior pages are clean, with the exception of the 1919 owner signature on the front flyleaf. Plates, including the color anatomical overlays and botanical diagrams, remain bright and intact. At the beginning of the volume, the list of illustrations, the first page has chipping with some small losses along the edges, does not impact the text and the last page of the illustration contents has a horizontal closed tear at the outer edge about midway, otherwise the pages throughout are intact and clean.

* **Binding:** The binding is square and remarkably tight for a volume of this thickness. Inner hinges are strong and intact; marbled endpapers are clean and undamaged.

See accompanying images for full condition details. Will ship promptly, carefully packaged.

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