Lions
Subtitle: living and dead; or, Personal recollections of the great and gifted. By the author of "Pen and ink sketches of authors and authoresses," "Pen pictures of popular English preachers," "Life of Chatterton," etc., etc.
Publisher: Partridge and Oakey
Published: 1852
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;">Small 8vo. pp. xii, 360. Signatures: [A]6 B12 C6 D12 E6 F12 G6 H12 I6 K12 L6 M12 N6 O12 P6 Q12 R6 S12 T6 U12. Original blue cloth. Ownership inscription of Eliza Mutton on back of front endpaper.</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;">First edition of these 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), preceding the edition from 1854 (see Bib# 4103452/Fr# 791 in this collection). The work is ‘full of imaginary conversations’ as noted, and unverifiable anecdotes of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, and many others, Dix’s acquaintances. See W. Thornbury, “John Dix, the Biographer of Chatterton,” in: Notes &amp; Queries, ser. 4, 9 (1872), 294-96.</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_9736886" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>