Atlas of Delineations of Cutaneous Eruptions; Illustrative of the Descriptions in the Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases of Thomas Bateman, M.D., F.L.S.

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829. FIRST EDITION. With 29 hand-colored engraved plates (numbered 1-18 18a, 18b, 19-27). Contemporary cloth, rebacked; boards worn and sunned, interior clean and bright. First edition. Seeing that Thomas Bateman’s classic dermatology work Delineations of cutaneous diseases (1817) was too expensive for most students, Thomson published this Atlas of delineations of cutaneous eruptions which reproduced many of the illustrations from Bateman’s work on a smaller scale. Bateman’s atlas was notable for the fine colored plates, and Thomson does a fine job in re-creating many of those plates plus adding his own additional illustrations. On the rear paste-down is a manuscript index of the plates.

Thomson (1778-1849) was a Scottish physician and a pioneer in dermatology. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics at the newly founded University of London where he conducted a clinic for skin diseases, the first clinic of its kind to be established at a teaching hospital.