The physical background of perception

Adrian, Edgar Douglas (1889-1977). The physical background of perception. [8], 95pp. Text illustrations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947. 220 x 140 mm. Original cloth, dust-jacket (sunned, chipped, portion torn from back wrapper). Minor toning but very good. First Edition. Adrian (first Baron Adrian) shared the 1932 Nobel Prize in physiology / medicine with Charles Sherrington for his investigations of the physical basis of sensation. The present book was based on Adrian's Waynflete Lectures of 1946.