7442.h.23

Imprint: London: J. and A. Churchill, New Burlington Street. 1872.

Quarto, original green cloth binding, measuring 275 x 228 mm, with blind-stamped decoration and title in gilt on upper board; 4 pp 'Preliminary remarks on leprosy in the Straits Settlements, followed by 14 crudely hand-coloured albumen prints of seven subjects exhibiting various manifestations of the disease, mounted one to a page on card, with an accompanying page of letterpress with each pair of prints. Each patient is represented by two photographs, one each of the upper and lower body. The photographs were all probably taken in Penang. In his introduction, Anderson writes that, 'The following series of plates illustrating leprosy were prepared in the hope that they might give a better idea of the disease as met with in the Straits Settlements than any mere written description could afford; whether that object has been accomplished or not I must leave to better judges than myself; this I may say, however, that those resident in the Straits, who are acquainted with the general aspect of this disease recognize their truthfulness...'