Author: Charles J. Cornish
Title: Sir William Henry Flower: A Personal Memoir
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this memoir of English surgeon Sir William Henry Flower, signed and inscribed by his wife. First edition. Signed by Georgiana Rosetta Smyth, the wife of Sir William Henry Flower who in later life modelled herself closely on Queen Victoria due to their similar size and matriarchal tendencies. With an inscription dated February 1906. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and four plates. Collated complete. The personal memoirs of Sir William Henry Flower, an English surgeon, museum curator and comparative anatomist, who became a leading authority on mammals and especially on the primate brain. He went on to become Director of the Natural History Museum in London. Written by Charles John Cornish, an English naturalist and writer. Bound in full green calf. Externally, smart with light wear to the extremities and fading to the spine. Light fading to the top of the front board with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot or handling mark. Light spotting to the endpapers with minor residue from a bookplate removed from the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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