Miss Kilmansegg and her precious leg. A golden legend haskins pp [xviii] + 124

pp [xviii] + 124

London: The Falcon Press

Dixon was a man of letters and a traveller

was deeply involved and interested"

together with 'rarer vegetables' and a lengthy appendix noting lodging houses

Miss Kilmansegg and her precious leg. A golden legend haskins pp [xviii] + 124London: E. Moxon, 1870. Hood's long, satirical poem criticises excessive consumption and the thirst for wealth with a moralising tale of a young woman, who after losing her leg in an accident replaces it with a prosthetic limb made of gold. Though her suitors increase, she is repaid for her greed when a penniless count marries her for her money and then kills her with her own "precious leg". First Edition. 8vo. pp [iv], [150]; with 60 line drawn