The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery.

GILLIES, Harold and D. Ralph Millard Jr.

Item Number: 135137

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1957.

First edition of the foundational textbook of plastic surgery. Quarto, two volumes, original cloth, illustrated with numerous photographs, frontispiece pastel by Henry Tonks. Chapter on Anesthesia by Ivan Magill. Foreword by Jerome Pierce Webster. In near fine condition. First editions are rare.

The father of modern plastic surgery, Harold Gillies developed many of the earliest techniques of plastic surgery at The Queen's Hospital near London following the outbreak of World War Two. There, he performed more than 11,000 operations on over 5,000 men including many soldiers with facial injuries, usually from gunshot wounds. Between the wars Gillies developed a substantial private practice with Rainsford Mowlem, including many famous patients, and travelled extensively, lecturing, teaching and promoting the most advanced techniques worldwide. His Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery remains one of the most important early texts on the subject.