1819 - POETICAL REMAINS OF THE LATE Dr JOHN LEYDEN - RARE FIRST EDITION

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THE POETICAL REMAINS OF THE LATE Dr JOHN LEYDEN WITH MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE BY THE REV JAMES MORTON FIRST EDITION, HALF LEATHER, PRINTED FOR STRAHAN AND SPOTTISWOODE FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME AND BROWN 1819. SPINE , CORNERS AND BOARDS VERY WORN, GOOD INTERNALLY. The uncommon first edition of The Poetical Remains of Dr. John Leyden . John Leyden, 1775 – 1811, was a British linguist and poet. He was educated at Edinburgh University. Leyden formed friendships with Robert Anderson, and Alexander Murray, with whom he struck a good friendship and friendly rivalry, as Leyden excelled in philology. He later came to the notice of Sir Walter Scott, who was then collecting materials for his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. After assisting Scott, and publishing his own works and translations, Leyden's friends secured him an appointment in India on the medical staff, for which he qualified by a year's hard work. In 1803, he sailed for Madras general hospital. He was promoted to be naturalist to the commissioners going to survey Mysore, and in 1807, his knowledge of the languages of India procured him an appointment as professor of Hindustani at Calcutta; this he soon after resigned for a judgeship, and that again to be a commissioner in the court of requests in 1805, a post which required a familiarity with several Eastern languages. read more
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