Author: BOWDLER (John):
Title: Select Pieces in Verse and Prose. Fourth Edition.
Description: London: Printed by Davidson..., and Sold by Cadell and Davies..., 1820. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. viii, 340; [iv], 389 [390 blank, 391 - 392 adverts], engraved portrait of Bowdler as frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary diced calf (rubbed and dried); lacks labels. Bowdler (1746 - 1823) was the brother of Thomas Bowdler (1754 - 1825), the editor of The Family Shakespeare. John Bowdler's collected works contains a defence of his brother's editorial decisions, as well as a long review of Dugald Stewart's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind.

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