CUSHING, The Life of Sir William Osler, 1926

The Life of Sir William Osler, by Harvey Cushing. Fourth Impression. Oxford. At The Clarendon Press. 1926.
 
Two octavo volumes uniformly bound in original dark blue cloth with gold text on spines. Prior owners writing on first fly leaf. Mild stains on boards. Frontispiece present and protected by tissue paper guards. Text blocks clean, bright, and tight. Numerous plates of photographs, facsimiles of manuscripts, etc.
 
An important and celebrated biography of one of the most important physicians of the 19th century, written by another one of the most important physicians of that century. Osler was one of the “Big Four” who confounded Johns Hopkins.