Bourneville, (Désiré Magloire). - Recherches cliniques et thérapeutiques sur l'Épilepsie, l'Hystérie et l'Idiotie. Compte rendu du service des épileptiques et des enfants idiots et arriérés de Bicêtre pendant l'année 1886. Volume VII.

Paris, Progrès Médical; A. Delahaye & E. Lecrosnier, 1887. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two parts in one volume. Octavo. Pp. xlviii; 258. Plus 5 plates, one of which is folding, bound at end. With 3 plans and 27 (only 25 are called for) text illustrations and photographs. Tables. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary brown quarter calf and matching marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt and decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. Volume VII. Four of the five plates are printed in collotype, one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms. ~ Désiré-Magloire Bourneville (1840 -1909). "Bourneville was celebrated as the leading continental authority on all that concerned mentally abnormal children (.)." (Haymaker/Thomas). A-1 .

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