Lions
Subtitle: living and dead; or, Personal recollections of the "great & gifted". By the author of "Pen and ink sketches of authors and authoresses", "Pen pictures of popular English preachers", "Life of Chatterton", &c. &c.
Publisher: W. Tweedie
Published: 1854
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. xii, 360. Signatures: [A]12 B-P12. One of two copies, both original cloth, variant bindings. Endpaper signed “John Dix Bristol surgeon." Added title page, engraved. Portraits.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Spurious ‘recollections’ by the English poet, artist, traveler, failed physician, and (alternately) alcoholic mendicant and temperance crusader John Dix (later John Ross Dix, 1811–?1864). Dix published the present work after emigrating to the United States. ‘Full of imaginary conversations’ with his acquaintances Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Lamb: see W. Thornbury, “John Dix, the Biographer of Chatterton,” in: Notes &amp;Queries, ser. 4, 9 (1872), 294-96 at p. 295.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103452" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>