Wheeler, James Talboys (1824-1897)

The Alchymist. A poetical romance. Author's holograph MS. His visiting card is pasted on the inside of the upper cover. Produced in Oxford.

1848

1 volume 3 ll. (first bl.). + 106 ff. + 7 bl. ll. 8vo. 22 × 13 cm. Original calf binding, damaged. Written on the rectos only, with some corrections by the author.

Purchased 1903.

He was a bookseller in Oxford, and later wrote on Indian history [see the Dictionary of National Biography].

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).