Physician’s edition. Photographic atlas of the diseases of the skin in four volumes. A series of ninety-six plates, comprising nearly two hundred illustrations, with descriptive text and a treatise on cutaneous therapeutics

New York: Kettles Publishing Company, 1905. With 96 full-page plates comoprising nearly 200 illustrations, most in color. Original red cloth binding; other than some loose leaves, interior excellent. “Physician’s edition.” Fox (1846-1937) was professor of dermatology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and consulting dermatologist to the Board of Health in the same city. As was customary in his day, he traveled as a young man to Europe for further training, and studied with Virchow in Berlin, Bazin, Hardy and Vidal in Paris, Tilbury Fox and Jonathan Hutchinson in London and notably with Hebra in Vienna.. He has made many contributions, particularly to symptomology, and is one of the founders of the American Dermatological Association. This important atlas of skin diseases is his major work. His first atlas Photographic illustration of skin diseases (1880) had only 48 plates. According to Dann this was the first dermatological work to make use of a duplicating technique known as heliography or photo-engraving which was invented in 1878.

See Garrison & Morton, 3996 (1880); Ehring, Skin Diseases, 224 (1880); Pusey, History of Dermatology, pp. 147-148; Shelly, Classics in Clinical Dermatology, p.324.