(Newman, Jeremiah Whitaker). The Lounger’s common-place book (or miscellaneous collections in history, criticism, biography, poetry & romance). (Volume 4): A new volume of the Lounger’s common-place book. Containing one hundred articles, none of which have been printed in any of the former volumes. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme 1807. 8°. [2] Bl., 252 S. Geglätteter Kalbslederband der Zeit mit goldgepr. Rückenschild, Rückenvergoldung, vierfachen Deckel-Filetten und Innenkantenvergoldung.

Vierter und letzter Teil der seit 1796 erschienenen Sammlung mit Biographien, politischen Kommentaren, Zitaten und Kritiken aus der zeitgenössischen Literatur, Satiren und Anekdoten. Kulturhistorisch wichtige Dokumentation der Aufklärung in Groß-Britannien um 1800. Der vorliegende Band enthält Biographien von Alexander de Medicis, Angus Foy Fletcher, John Calas, Thomas Chatterton, Henry Flood, Lord Nelson, Thomas Swalden u. a. Außerdem interessante Artikel über Landschafts-Gärtnerei, unparteiische Justiz, Nervenleiden, Straßenvermessung und Tabak. – Die Sammlungen wurden noch bis 1838 immer wieder neu aufgelegt. – Hauptwerk des britischen Mediziners und Schriftstellers J. W. Newman (1759-1839). – Newman „became a member of the Corporation of Surgeons, and was in practice at Ringwood in 1783. In consequence of ill-health he removed to Dover, where he made the acquaintance of Sir Thomas Mantell [q. v.] and his wife, and resided for many years in their house. He was a delightful companion at all times, full of anecdote and energy, intelligence and originality. On 9 Dec. 1790 he was admitted an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians of London (Munk, Coll. of Phys. 2nd edit. ii. 414). He was a favourite with the eccentric Messenger Monsey [q. v.], the resident physician at Chelsea Hospital, of whom he wrote (but did not publish) an amusing memoir. He married and settled on his own estate at Ringwood, where he died on 27 July 1839. His principal work, published anonymously, was ‘The Lounger’s Commonplace Book, or Miscellaneous Collections in History, Criticism, Biography, Poetry, and Romance,’ 3rd edit. 4 vols., London, 1805–7, 8vo; and 2 vols., London, 1838, 8vo.“ (Dictionary of National Biography). – Sehr schönes dekorativ gebundenes Exemplar aus der französischen Schloß-Bibliothek „Bibliotheque de Fulcran Captier“ (Exlibris).
The fourth and final volume of the collection, first published in 1796, containing biographies, political commentary, quotations and reviews from contemporary literature, satires and anecdotes. A culturally and historically significant record of the Enlightenment in Great Britain around 1800. This volume contains biographies of Alexander de Medicis, Angus Foy Fletcher, John Calas, Thomas Chatterton, Henry Flood, Lord Nelson, Thomas Swalden and others. It also includes interesting articles on landscape gardening, impartial justice, nervous disorders, road surveying and tobacco. – The collections were reprinted repeatedly until 1838. – Major work by the British physician and writer J. W. Newman (1759–1839). – A very fine, decoratively bound copy from the French castle library ‘Bibliothèque de Fulcran Captier’ (bookplate).

• Kategorie: Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft / Illustrierte Bücher / Pressendrucke
• Schlagwörter: Aufklärung · England · Great Britain · Grossbritannien · Satire
• Sprache: Englisch
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