Sketches In Prose. By The Author Of Zone .

London: C. Tilt, Fleet Street, MDCCCXXVII. [1827 ] .. Scarce first edition. A very good original half leather binding. 12mo. 16.5cm x 10.0cm x 1.0cm. [8pp.]/pp.132. Dull green calf spine and corners over marbled boards. Smooth spine with gilt decoration and original brown leather title label. Marbled page edges and matching endpapers. A single number '6' ink stamp to front free-endpaper. free-endpapers lightly soiled. Printed title page. Preface signed: W.C.D. Colophon to verso of the title-page and at base of the last leaf: "Tickle, High Street, Lambeth." Clean English text throughout. VG. ** "Walter Cooper Dendy (1794�1871) was an English surgeon and writer... Dendy was not a mere surgeon; he was conspicuous for cultivated taste and polished manners. He published a poem of much merit entitled �Zone,� and the �Philosophy of Mystery,� 1841, a treatise on dreams, spectral illusions, and other imperfect manifestations of the mind. He held some peculiar religious views, but his mind was too much imbued with enthusiasm for him to be a materialist. He was the author of many books, and contributed largely to medical journals, and was the writer of some remarkable papers in the �Psychological Journal.� He was an admirable draughtsman, and illustrated his own works. His last efforts with his pencil were some sketches of the scenes described by the poet Cowper in the neighbourhood of Olney and Weston Underwood... Having retired from practice, he occupied his time in the reading-room of the British Museum, where his eccentric costume made him a well-known character. After a short illness he died at 25 Suffolk Street, Haymarket, London, on 10 Dec. 1871, aged 77. " - See Wikipedia . *** "Charles Tilt was the son of William Tilt, a confectioner of St. Paul�s Churchyard. After the death of William in 1807, the confectioner�s business was continued by his widow and son William junior; young Charles was apprenticed to a bookseller in Hampshire. From 1817 till 1826 he worked for various booksellers, among them Hatchard�s and Longman�s, but in October 1826, he started his own business in Fleet Street. He had his shop just on the corner of St. Bride�s Avenue and Fleet Street, and specialised in illustrated books and lithographic prints." - See London Street Views.