Enchiridion: or A Hand for the One-Handed.
Book Description
The author lost at arm at the Battle of Vittoria and his book is here in a facsimile reprint of the original edition of 1822. Details gadgets he invented for those suffering from the loss of a limb.
Dealer Notes
Publishers compliment slip paste to lower end paper. Small printed label of a Lisbon bookseller to front end paper.
Author
Derenzy, George Webb.
Date
1962.
Binding
Hard cover in three quarters brown leather over marbled paper boards. Decorated end papers. Lettered to spine and upper cover in gilt.
Publisher
Elizabeth Licht, Publisher, New Haven, Connecticut.
Illustrator
frontispiece portrait of the author. Line illustrations in the text.
Condition
Internally good and clean. The leather with light edge wear.
Pages
60pp. +colophon. c.22cm.
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