OSLER PRESENTATION COPY.


CHARLES SAYLE. 1864-1924. The Ages of Man. London: John Murray, 1916. 8vo (204 x 149 mm). Publisher's blue gilt-stamped cloth. A few small tears to spine ends, gutters cracked in a couple places. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM OSLER, "With Xmas Greetings from Wm. Osler, 1916." Charles Sayle was a poet, as well as a bibliographer and librarian at Cambridge University. He edited a three-volume edition of Sir Thomas Browne's works and catalogued the seventeenth-century books at St. Johns College. Osler had a copy of this book, a collection of quotations for each year in a man's life, in his personal collection. Osler 4526.