This is the 4th edition of Bruce Shields’ excellent book, appearing about 5 years after the last edition. The text has been thoroughly revised and as noted in the preface 2300 original papers have been reviewed for this edition with 1440 new references incorporated into the text. For the first time a companion volume entitled Colour Atlas of Glaucoma has been produced which was not available for review. The text and photographs follow the same order in the two volumes. …