Skinner, John (1772-1839)

Analysis of language, and the symbols of the worship of the Sun. Author's holograph MS. Profusely illustrated with pen- and wash-drawings of Egyptian and other antiquities, etc.

c. 1830

2 volumes 2 vols. 4to. 25 × 181/2 cm. Original calf binding. Margins slightly cropped. Both volumes are inter-leaved. The work is incomplete.

Purchased at Sotheby's 1/11/1932, Lot 581.

The author was Rector of Camerton, Somerset, and committed suicide in 1839. The D.N.B. refers to this MS., when it speaks of his 'work on the origin and analysis of language, which was not published.'

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).