[DURLACHER, LEWIS]. A Treatise on Corns, Bunions, the Diseases of Nails, and the General Management of the Feet. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., MDCCCXLV. [1845].
FIRST EDITION. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (23 x 14 x 1.5 cm.); pp. xxiv, 196 + 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates from drawings by Alexander Durlacher. English text with illustrated plates to rear. Bound in publisher's original blind stamped cloth with gilt titles to spine; yellow endpapers. Printed by S. Taylor of London. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Slight rubbing to spine ends. Interior very well-preserved and without previous ownership markings. An excellent copy. Scarce.
Notes: First and best edition, being the only illustrated edition and in larger format than later editions. This book gave the first description of anterior metatarsalgia (later designated Morton's metatarsalgia), plantar digital neuritis, oncycophosis, Durlacher's corn, etc. It placed chiropody on a scientific basis, and is, in the opinion of J.C. Dagnall, the most important book in the literature. G&M 4325. See Dagnall, "The history of chiropodial literature", in The Chiropodist, 1965.
