Author: WARREN, SAMUEL
Title: Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician. 2 Volume Set
Description: Edinburgh: William Blackwood / T Cadell, 1833. Second Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 170mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). xii, 379pp; 395pp. 1: Early Struggles; II: Cancer; III: The Dentist and the Comedian; IV: A Scholar's Deathbed; V: Preparing for the House!; VI: Duelling; VII: Intriguing and Madness; VIII: The Broken Heart; IX: Consumption; X: The Spectral Dog; XI: The Forger; XII: A Man About Town; XIII: Death at the Toilet; XIV: The Turned Head; XV: The Wife; XVI: Grave Doings; XVII: The Spectre-Smitten; XVIII: The Martyr Philosopher; XIX: The Statesman; XX: A Slight Cold; XXI: Rich and Poor; XXII: The Ruined Merchant; XXIII: Mother and Son. Six further chapters were published subsequently.. G: in good condition. Minor scuffing to leather at corners. Light rubbing to marbled boards. Contents clean and tight. Gilt decorated spine remains bright. Previous owner bookplates to fep of first volume and front paste-down of second. Inner hinge cracking. Page edge browning. Sporadic foxing .

Keywords: Diaries 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian Medicine


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