The Story of a Surgeon

The Story of a Surgeon

Bland-Sutton, Sir John. London: Methuen & Co., 1930.

Demy 8vo., xii, 204 pp. Frontis photo portrait of the author with Rudyard Kipling, plus 26 photo and illustrated plates. Single-page preamble written by Rudyard Kipling. Dark blue cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt.

Minor rub to spine ends, joints and outer corners of boards. Very minor tone to a few leaves. Small speckled spots to back endpapers. Minor marginalia to a few pages, probably in the hand of the author. A very nice copy.

Bland-Sutton (1855 – 1936) studied at the Middlesex Hospital where he became a lecturer and, later, surgeon. He witnessed the “transformation of surgery by discoveries in anaesthesia, bacteriology and antisepsis”. He served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1923 to 1925 and as vice-President of the Zoological Society of London. These memoirs centre around his experiences at the Middlesex Hospital and with the Zoological Society. This appears to have been a personal copy of the author with his armorial book plate. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by him, dated March 10, 1933 on the half-title page. Unique thus. 1st edition.

$225.00 CDN