Select poems, &c / by the late John Dawes Worgan, of Bristol, who died on the twenty-fifth of July 1809, aged nineteen years ; to which are added, some particulars of his life and character, by an early friend and associate ; with a preface, by William Hayley.

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Select poems, &c / by the late John Dawes Worgan, of Bristol, who died on the twenty-fifth of July 1809, aged nineteen years ; to which are added, some particulars of his life and character, by an early friend and associate ; with a preface, by William Hayley. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : Published by Kimber & Richardson ... ; Merritt, printer ..., 1813.

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xiv, 3 unnumbered pages, 18-273 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm

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First published in London in 1810
Dedicated by the editor to Edward Jenner
"Worgan was a consumptive boy of precocious ability whom Jenner took into his household, nominally as a tutor to his sons"--Le Fanu
Includes Epistola ad Johannem Ring, Chirurgum (p. 194-201) and An address to the Royal Jennerian Society (p. [211]-219). Lacks the essays on vaccination included in the London edition. Cf. Le Fanu
Signatures: A⁶ B² C-Z⁶ 2A²(2A2+1)
NLM copy: title page imperfect: part of first word of title and author's first name torn away; title leaf re-backed.

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Shaw & Shoemaker 30580
Le Fanu, W.R. Jenner, p. 154 (1810 ed.)

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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