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Imaginative Biography. Imaginative Biography.

BRYDGES, Sir Samuel Egerton. Imaginative Biography. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Saunders & Otley. 1834
Contemp. half red calf, gilt spines, black labels; spines sl. darkened. Small booklabels of John Sparrow. A good-plus copy.

¶The author explains his choice of title in a brief prefatory notice: 'By Imaginative Biography I mean, an Imaginary Superstructure on the known facts of the Biography of eminent characters'. Those imagined include Thomas Gray, John Milton, Samuel Johnson, Sir Walter Raleigh, Horace Walpole, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and numerous others.
Stock #26204
£185


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