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Sixth edition. Edited by R.H. Champion, J.L. Burton, D.A. Burns, and S.M. Breathnach. 3683 pp. in four volumes, illustrated. Boston, Blackwell Science, 1998. $695. ISBN 0-632-03796-2.

In 1968, Arthur Rook and colleagues published the first edition of Textbook of Dermatology, a two-volume, 1964-page work (Oxford, England: Blackwell Scientific). The sixth edition of this book is a four-volume, 3683-page textbook that is amply illustrated with color photographs. None of its original editors are among the four who edited this new work. The authors, with only three exceptions, are from Great Britain and are predominantly English. The style of the writing is clearly British, but the style of the references has been changed to the Vancouver style, which is now accepted almost universally.

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