The Doctor &c. By the Late Robert Southey. Edited by His Son-in-Law John Wood Warter B.D. Complete in One Volume.

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London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1848. Rebacked half leather retaining the original spine stripon cloth boards (rubbed on corner points). (xl 696pp.). Frontisp. & title vignette. Small tear on half-title page otherwise sound copy of 1st edition in one volume. NOTE: Southey wrote an immense amount both of verse and prose as well as being an excellent letter-writer. The Doctor is a miscellany: a collection of articles on a great variety of subjects. It contains the nursery story of The Three Bears and its humour is occasionally Rabelaisian.