Dec 13, 2007 - Sale 2132

Sale 2132 - Lot 116A

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
Photographic Illustrations of Skin Diseases. By George Henry Fox. With 48 hand-colored autotype plates of subjects with skin conditions. 4to, 1/2 calf with marbled boards, joints split, corners worn; hinges cracked, light dampstaining at lower margin of preliminaries; plates crisp and clean. first edition. New York, 1880

Additional Details

Note that the tryptych (depicting the man with Sarcoma Pigmentosum) does not have a fig leaf covering his genitals, as is typically seen in other examples of the first edition. One assumes that Fox decided it was too revealing and inserted the fig leaf before many copies had been printed.