EISENBERG, John.

4to, 4 leaves, pp. (v)–xii, xiv, 252. Original brown cloth (a little soiled and marked, rebacked, tips of corners worn), yellow endpapers, gilt edges. Bookplate of J. Colin Dagnall, the historian of chiropody (see below).

FIRST EDITION. The most handsome book on chiropody published to date. Printed in large, clear type and published in quarto format with gilt edges, this volume is one of the most impressive in the whole of the early literature of the subject. However, the contents do not follow its appearance, for “it contains interesting material and was a definite contribution to our literature, but unfortunately it also contained much rubbish” (J.C. Dagnall, “The history of chiropodial literature”, in The Chiropodist, 1965; also “Who wrote ‘Eisenberg on the diseases of the foot’?”, in The Chiropodist, vol. 41, 1986). Eisenberg appears to have been an Austrian émigré with a considerable practice in a fashionable part of London. The preface is in German.