Aesculapius Inspects the Harvard Medical School

San Francisco: Privately printed for a. Lincoln Brown, M.D., 1955 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. One of 100 copies beautifully printed by the Grabhorn Press. Small folio. 28pp. Opening initials on title and first page of text stamped in gold, designed by Mary Grabhorn. Handset Lutetia type on English handmade paper. White parchment-style boards, dark red spine label, gilt. Covers slightly soiled, else a fine copy. This satirical essay was originally delivered by the author at the Mid-winter Dinner of the Aesculapian Club in 1947 and first published privately in the Club's Aesculapian Bulletin. Irving was a William Lambert Richardson Professor of Obstetrics Emeritus. [Grabhorn: 570]..