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An Attic Philosopher in Paris or a peep at the world from a garret being the Journal of a happy man from the French of Emile Souvestre published in London and printed for or by Longman et al 1857.
Slim half leather and marble paper over board binding with raised bands to the spine and gilt lettering and lines to the spine. Sir Thomas Longmore's armorial bookplate to the front pastedown, foxed.
Title page (Pencil name of "Rosalie Moorsom Satis House Rochdale" to the top of the title page). See below* + viii + 144pp, clean throughout with very minor foxing.
Sir Thomas Longmore (1816–1895) was an elite, highly decorated British military icon. The Crimean War Veteran: He served as a frontline regimental surgeon with the 19th Regiment of Foot during the Crimean War (1854–1855). He famously survived severe frostbite while tending to casualties every single day of the Siege of Sevastopol, and fought at the Battles of Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava. Royal Surgeon to Queen Victoria: He was later appointed Professor of Military Surgery at Netley Hospital and served as the Honorary Surgeon to Queen Victoria. Medical Innovator: Longmore was a pioneering authority on battlefield trauma, publishing essential 19th-century medical manuals on gunshot wounds and battlefield bicycle-ambulances. He was knighted by the Queen in 1886
Rosalie Moorsom - The name “Rosalie Moorsom” handwritten at the top of the title page is almost certainly Mary Rosalie Helen Moorsom herself (using her middle name "Rosalie") who was Longmore's wife, Moorsom, a prominent, wealthy British family with vast naval and civil connections during the 19th century (most notably Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom, who fought at Trafalgar).
The Dickensian House Name: "Satis House" is famously the name of Miss Havisham’s decaying mansion in Charles Dickens’ masterpiece Great Expectations (published in 1861). The name originates from the Latin word for enough (satisfaction). Having an original Victorian resident living in a real-life "Satis House" in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, who owned a book called The Attic Philosopher—a text written entirely about finding satisfaction in a small, humble home—is an incredible, poetic alignment of 19th-century themes
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