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Good. The contemporary bindings have edge rubbing/wear to the spines, with loss of the spine label to volume 1. Significant foxing to prelims / latter pages, however generally tightly bound and mainly clean internally. Armorial bookplates of William... 2 volume set. 2 Volumes. Quarter leather bound with panelled/tooled spines and marbled boards. 1st Editions, (1802 & 1803) of Volumes 1 and 3 of Thomas Beddoes' Hygeia (of 3 volumes published). 'Thomas Beddoes was made for the tumultuous times in which he lived. Born in 1760, he began to emerge as a public figure in the 1790s, when radical spirits in Britain were inflamed by the French Revolution and those of a more conservative disposition reeled in horror. He both witnessed and participated in the birth of the Romantic movement (not least through his son, the poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes) and the maturing of the Industrial Revolution. By the time he died, in 1808, he had earned extremes of respect and suspicion as a charismatic maverick doctor whose Pneumatic Institution in Bristol had pioneered unconventional remedies founded on the administration of gases of contestable efficacy. Along the way, he taught chemistry at Oxford for six years and, following an intemperate resignation from his university post and various manifestations of his Jacobin sympathies, he even appeared on the Home Office list of political undesirables. He was also one of the conduits by which German psychological theories, in particular those of the eighteenth-century Karl Philipp Moritz, became known to British readers. Moritz's ideas helped Beddoes to a perception of a continuity between the states of sanity and madness rather than a negation of each other. In exploring this perception in his Hygëia (1802 03), Beddoes became a late contributor to Enlightenment debates in the capacious British tradition of associationist psychology. ' (Ref: The Many Worlds of Thomas Beddoes, by Robert Fox., The Royal Society Journal, 2009. ) He was a friend of, and early an influence on Coleridge and Southey, who offered themselves to Beddoes as human guinea-pigs, inhaling gases, while in Joseph Cottle's words, 'they described and he recorded their sensations'.
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