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FERRIAR, John SKU: 15324 Barcode:
Stock No. 15324
Authors: John, FERRIAR, (1761-1815)
With other Essays and VersesPrinted for Cadell and Davies by J and J Haddock, Horse-Market, Warrington, 1812
Second edition, in two volumes. 12mo (7 x 4.5 ins); xii, 193 + 222 pp. Bound in full, cross-hatched, calf with double red labels to spine and three single flower devices, single gilt ruled border to sides, edges of spines a touch rubbed, endpapers mildly foxed. With the armourial bookplate of Henry Charles Blaksley. Osler 4805. Cushing F 106 (citing only this 1812 edition)
First published in a single volume in 1798, Dr Ferriar investigates aspects of Sterne's 'Tristram Shandy', in the process providing one of the earliest printed expositions and defences of Tagliacozzi's methods of rhinoplasty published in English before the revival by Carpue in 1816. Also includes an entertaining poem entitled 'The Bibliomania, an Epistle to Richard Heber, Esq' - "What wild desires, what restless torments seize / The hapless man, who feels the book-disease / If niggard Fortune cramp his gen'rous mind / And Prudence quench the Spark by heaven assign'd!". (DNB v. VI)
