Physical description

Dark maroon leather binding, title, authors, volume number, edition and price stamped in gilt on front cover. Title edition and publisher stamped in gilt on spine. Pages are edged in red

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

At the base of the front endpage is a printed black and white donation sticker: black Maltese cross in circle, 'This book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by' Dorothy Owen. Previous catalogue number is also written on this label [both in black ink] Opposite title page a name has been handwritten [black ink] On title page there is a purple stamp 'THE BACCHUS MARSH CONCENTRATED MILK CO. LTD' and '309' [hand-written black ink] There are also three pages of hand-written notes

Summary

Vintage reference, contains detailed monographs on the chemical and therapeutic properties of drugs, including their manufacture, administration and medical uses