Title: Passages from the history of a wasted life. By a middle-aged man. Edited by the author of “Pen-and-ink sketches;””Pen-pictures of British preachers;” “Life of Chatterton;” &c. &c. Illustrated by Billings
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. iii, 248. Original cloth, ‘illustrated by Billings’. Signed [illegible] in pencil on front free 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;">Second edition of an entirely and painfully autobiographical work by the English poet, artist, traveler, failed physician, and (alternately) alcoholic mendicant and temperance crusader John Dix (later John Ross Dix, 1811–?1864), although Dix professes to be only the ‘editor’. Dix published the present work after emigrating to the United States.</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_5547676" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>