Auld Reekie [Herbert William Crosse] — Lays for Leeches

Norwich, A.E. Soman & Co; H.W. Hunt, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce volume of 'rhymes for physicians, sages, surgeons and medical students&apos. The first edition of this very scarce work.A humorous volume of twenty-three short rhymes and poems on medical subjects, with titles including 'The Mortuary Keeper's Song' and 'Ars Obstetrica&apos.The work of Herbert William Crosse, who writes under the pseudonym 'Auld Reekie', which is Scots for 'Old Smokey' and was commonly used to refer to Edinburgh in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Illustrated with a frontispiece.With a former owner's inscription to the front free endpaper. Undated; dated 1929 via the National Libraries of Scotland.A very smart example of these scarce medical poems. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with two spots to tail of front board. Front hinge slightly strained but firmly held, with an inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .