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8vo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. vii + [i] + 288 pp. Bound in maroon cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has lightly soiled rear wrapper, and a few edge chips at head and tail of spine, which is sunned. small sellotape mark on first free endpaper and a little page edge wear; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 10 black and white plates, including portrait frontispiece. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Biography of Edward Jenner, the Gloucestershire, country doctor, zoologist and pioneer of smallpox vaccination based on the cowpox vaccine. By Dorothy Fisk (1892-1972), fiction and science writer (Furrowed Middlebrow, British and Irish Women Writers of Fiction 1910-1960 website).