Some reflections on genius : and other essays / Russell Brain ; drawings by Norman Smith
1960, First Edition. London : Pitman Medical Pub. Co. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled, price-clipped dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #240647
Physical description; 192 p : ill. ; 22 cm. Decorated endpapers. Contents; Some reflections on genius -- Jonathan Swift: l'enfant terrible -- Dr. Johnson on science -- Dr. Johnson and the kangaroo -- The dancing bear -- The great convulsionary -- A post-morten on Dr. Johnson -- Lord Monboddo: Evolutionist and anti-Johnsonian -- Christopher Smart: The flea that became an eagle -- Dickensian diagnosis -- Grock the inimitable -- Sitting to Epstein -- Symbol and image -- Words. Subjects; Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784. Genius — Essays. Creative ability — Essays. Celebrities. Psychophysiology. Creative ability. Creativeness. Famous Persons. Intelligence. Genius. History of medicine. Psychology.
Price: €18.00