Portraits of Doctors & Scientists in the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine: A Catalogue
Hardcover
1973 · London
by Burgess, Renate
London: Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1973. Hardcover. VG- (DJ has a tear at head of spine and a smaller one at heel; otherwise clean.). Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine, blue & illus. dust jacket, 459 pp., 377 BW plates., weighs 5.25 lbs. Text on spine and front cover: Portraits in the Wellcome Institute. Supplies details for about 12,000 individual portraits of more than 3300 individuals in this monstrous collection. Arranged in alpha order by the person portrayed. 377 examples are provided as BW plates. Includes artist indexes at the rear. Quite a resource on the depictions of medical and scientific personnel. (Inventory #: 147591)