Buy this book on-line

James, Robert Rhodes : Henry Wellcome

John Curtis, London, 1994

ISBN 0340606177

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. PRESENTATION COPY to David Somerset (Chief Cashier of the Bank of England 1980-1988) from Sir Roger Gibbs, Chairman of the Wellcome Trust, October 1994. A Fine unmarked copy, apart from the presentation inscription, in green cloth boards with near Fine dustjacket. First edition, first printing. xix + 422 pages. 109 illustrations. The Wellcome Trust is the largest and most significant benefactor ever to British medical research, yet few people, even those aware of the international pharmaceutical company that bears his name, know anything about its founder, Henry Solomon Wellcome. His life was an extraordinary story of achievement and disappointment, triumph and sadness, that began in deep poverty in northern Wisconsin in 1853 and ended in his death in London in 1936 as a celebrated and greatly honoured millionaire. His outstanding achievement, with his equally yound partner, the mercurial Silas Burroughs, was to finance and build research laboratories in Britain that made the fame and fortune of Burroughs Wellcome. This biography was commissioned at the request of the Wellcome Trust and is the first to tell the remarkable story of Wellcome's life. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.96 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 16. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine

First Edition

James, Robert Rhodes : Henry Wellcome

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1994

ISBN 0340606177

422pp. B&W and Color Illustrations Biography of the founder of an international pharmaceutical company. He began his life in deep poverty in northern Wiscosin in 1853 and ended with his death in London in 1936 as a celebrated and greatly honored millionaire, 8vo, Fine in Fine DJ

1st Edition