A Welsh Leech Book or Llyfr o Feddyginiaeth, Faithfully Reproduced from the Original Manuscript, Edited by Timothy Lewis, M.A., D. Salesbury Hughes, Liverpool, 1914, 136pp, cloth, 7.5 x 10", 8vo

Fair condition.  Wear and staining to boards.  Gilt illustration on front board.  Title in gilt on spine.  Tips are bumped.  Floral patterned endpapers.  Frontispiece opposite title page.  Toning, age-staining, and tea-staining throughout textblock.  Endpapers show significant tea-staining and possible color bleeding from cloth covering boards.  Binding intact.  Please see photos.

Numbered 45 of 300.

An uncommon volume on the medicinal uses of leeches in Medieval Wales.  Includes facsimiles of original pages of the manuscript.

FORN-TUB-0040-BB-0524-JC740