Title: Pen and ink sketches of poets, preachers, and politicians
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, 275. Signatures: [A]6 B-M12 N6. Half morocco. Cover detached. Coleridge, Shelley, Hazlitt penciled on front endpaper. Includes portrait of S. T. Coleridge “From a Sketch in Oils by by Washington Allston” on frontispiece.</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 this work by the English poet, artist, traveler, failed physician, and (alternately) alcoholic mendicant and temperance crusader John Dix (later John Ross Dix, 1811–?1864), including suspect personal ‘recollections’ of his acquaintances Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Lamb.</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_4103447" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>