Leamington peripatetics, or, "Use your limbs and have them"
Leamington: C. Elston, ca. 1840s. Broadside (222 x 165 mm.) mounted to stiff card; steel engraved vignette at head of broadside titled "Beech Lawn, Leamington. The Residence of H. Jephson, Esqr. M.D." drawn and engraved by J. Brandard; text in double column within decorative border (quite badly affected by trimming); top edge darkened, else very good. Mounted to card verso are 2 clippings, one dated November 15, 1854 and titled "After the Battle," signed in print "R.C."; the other concerning a Mr. Canning's epigram of a Mr. Whitbread, most likely taken from an 1879 issue of The Spectator. Leamington Peripatetics is an extremely rare illustrated broadside poem by Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871), from about 1842, about the then-famous Leamington Doctor Henry Jephson (1798-1878), who often prescribed walking as a primary tonic or curative and was. at one point, John Ruskin's physician. Morgan Library only in OCLC. Together with: Leamington peripatetics & Answer to Leamington peripatetics. A comical tribute to Dr. Jephson. Nial Devitt Books, 1988. Bifolium facsimile limited to 350 copies. Fine. Item #43085
Price: $125.00
