Pen and Ink Sketches: by a Cosmopolitan. To which is added Chatterton: a romance of Literary Life
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- Pen and Ink Sketches: by a Cosmopolitan. To which is added Chatterton: a romance of Literary Life
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- 1845
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Pen and Ink Sketches: by a Cosmopolitan. To which is added Chatterton: a romance of Literary Life
Author: Dix, John R. (John Ross)
Year: 1845
8vo. pp. 198, [2]. Original brown printed wrappers, spine chipped. Lending library label (‘J. L. Wales’) on front cover. First edition, very scarce, first book appearance of any of the literary ‘Pen and Ink Sketches,’ preceding the English collected editions (See Bib# 4103447/Fr# 784, Bib# 4103448/Fr# 785, and Bib# 4103449 /Fr# 786 in this collection). Dix’s ‘personal recollections’ of Samuel Rogers, Robert Southey, Sidney Smith, and James and Robert Montgomery originally appeared (as the ‘Introduction,’ dated from Boston, Mass., August 1845, informs us) in the Boston ‘Atlas’ magazine, and were assembled here from and by that periodical. Like all works by the garrulous ex-alcoholic physician, poet, and ‘leech on the Romantic tradition’ (and by now an emigré to the New World) they ‘bear scrutiny for fictive invention’ (see A. Freeman, Bibliotheca Fictiva. A Collection of Books and Manuscripts Relating to Literary Forgery 400 BC–2000 AD. London, 2014, pp. 48-49). The abridged ‘Life’ of Chatterton (pp. 167-198) differs substantially from the notorious English version, peppered with forgeries.
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