"Science In Story : Sammy Tubbs, the Boy Doctor and "Sponsie," The Troublesome Monkey / By EB Foote, MD, Author of "Medical Common Sense" Plain Home Talk &C Vol 4" Novel. 1874.

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, New York : Murray Hill Publishing Co, 2020.

5 volumes : illustrations ; 16 cm

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"Running title: The boy doctor and the troublesome monkey. Volume number appears at foot of title page, v. 1-3. Copyright 1874 by E.B. Foote M.D. Vol. IV bears imprint date 1876. "Photo Engraving Co Moss's Process 62 Courtlandt St. New York."--verso of title page. Each page printed with red border. Pagination of v. 1: [3], ii-iv, [1], 6-230 p. Pagination does not include 12 illustrated leaves, conjugate with the text. Pagination of v. 2: 232 p. + [12] illustrated leaves. Volume 3: 245, [1] p. + [5] illustrated leaves. Volume 4: 256 p. Volume 5: [4], iii-iv, 6-251, [1] [i.e., 258] p.; includes 2 p. numbered 180 1/2-180 3/4. In terra-cotta cloth. "The illustrations are pen and ink sketches by Mr. Henry L. Stephens, well-known to the most popular publishing establishments of New York as an inimitable artist; then they are reproduced in these volumes by the new Photo-Engraving process of the Photo-Engraving Company of 62 Cortlandt [sic] St."--v. 1, p. 229. "The only illustration it [v. 5] contains that can be objected to by the most fastidious may be easily removed without marring the book or making a break in its successive numberings of pages."--v. 1, publisher's announcement, p. 229. "Murray Hill series."--series title, cover. Volume 5 includes "Professional Card," p. [252], an advertisement for Dr. Foote's services. "Extra English cloth, beveled boards, gold side and back, and polished red edges, (holiday style,) $1.50 per volume."--v. 1, p. 230."

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