Title: Local legends and rambling rhymes. By John Dix, author of the life of Chatterton, &c. &c. With illustrations, by “A. Pen”
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;">12mo. pp. x, 132. Signatures: [pi]2 A5 B-M6. Cloth, with gilt satyrs on front cover. Includes 24 humorous plates, including frontispiece and pictorial title page, by “A. Pen,” possibly John Leech. Illegible signature on title page.</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;">Rhymes by the English poet, artist, traveler, failed physician, and (alternately) alcoholic mendicant and temperance crusader John Dix (later John Ross Dix, 1811–?1864), relating mainly to Bristol and its surroundings.</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_4103443" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>