bowdler john younger (1 Ergebnisse)

2 volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 340; [4], 389, [1], [2] Cadell ads; engraved frontispiece portrait by Edward Scriven; original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfbacks, printed paper labels on spines; some chipping along the spine and cracks at the extremities; all else generally very good and sound. Early ownership signature on the front free endpaper of "S. Williamson 1831." Bowlder (1783-1815) was working in a London solicitor's office when his health began to deteriorate. In 1810 "signs of consumption appeared, and he spent the two following years in the south of Europe. In May 1812 he returned to England and lived with an aunt near Portsmouth. But his health was not restored, and he died 1 Feb. 1815 . He engaged in literary pursuits during his illness, and his father published in 1816 his 'Select Pieces in Prose and Verse' (2 vols.) The book contained a full memoir and the journal kept by Bowdler during his foreign tour of 1810-1812. Wide reading in current English philosophy is exhibited in a long sympathetic exposition of Dugald Stewart's philosophical theories, but the other essays and the poems are religious rhapsodies of no literary merit. The book was reprinted in 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820" (DNB).