Title: Lions
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>