Peck 1935 Books, Peck, C.W., Pharmacopoeia of St Thomas’s Hospital, London, 1935, 188pp. Original blue cloth with titles in gilt, spine partly torn; an interleaved copy of this scarce tract, signed Joan F.N. Blake on first free endpaper (£20-30)

C Wilson Peck was pharmaceutist to the hospital and lecturer on pharmacy to St Thomas’s Medical School; as a 15-year old boy the cataloguer well remembers visiting Peck at his Wimbledon home and listening to him describe his pharmaceutical career