Health Lectures for the People; Delivered in Edinburgh During the Winter of 1880-81, MacNiven and Wallace, 1881

An uncommon first edition of ten public lectures delivered in Edinburgh during the winter of 1880-81, aimed at making medical knowledge and practical health advice accessible to a wider audience. Covering aspects of public health, hygiene and disease prevention, the collection reflects Victorian attitudes towards medicine and healthy living, offering an interesting insight into nineteenth-century medical education.

Health Lectures for the People; Delivered in Edinburgh During the Winter of 1880-81. Preface by ‘F.E.M.T.’. Features 10 medical lectures by various authors.

Published by MacNiven and Wallace, Edinburgh, 1881. First edition.

A good hardback with black leather spine and corners. The spine with lightly raised bands with gilt decoration and gilt red Morocco title label. With black cloth over boards. Covers lightly rubbed and bumped. Some rubbing to joints. Endpapers at front inner hinge cracked at gutter, but all holding firm. Some offsetting to endpapers opposite turn-ins.

Text is bright and clean throughout with occasional light usage mark.

Text in English.

viii + 228pp.

Dimensions: Approximately 187mm high x 128mm wide x 18mm deep.

Weight approximately 306g.