RARE “18th Century Renowned Physician" Nathan Drake Clipped Signature For Sale

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RARE “18th Century Renowned Physician" Nathan Drake Clipped Signature:
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Up for sale a VERY RARE! "English Essayist" Nathan Drake Clipped Signature. 

– 7 June 1836), English essayist and physician, was born in York as

the son of Nathan Drake, an artist. He

is well known for a book that sums up knowledge of Shakespeare available at the

time. Drake was apprenticed to a doctor in York in 1780, and in 1786 proceeded

to Edinburgh University,

where he took his degree as M. D. in 1789. In 1790 he set up as a general

practitioner at Sudbury, Suffolk, where he found an intimate friend in John Mason

Good (died 1827). In 1792, Drake relocated to Hadleigh, where he died in 1836.

Drake's works include several volumes of literary essays, and some papers

contributed to medical periodicals, but his most important production was Shakespeare

and his Times, including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on his Genius,

and Writings; a new Chronology of his Plays; a Disquisition on the Object of

his Sonnets; and a History of the Manners, Customs and Amusements,

Superstitions, Poetry and Elegant Literature of his Age (2 vols,

1817). The title adequately indicates the scope of

this ample work, which has the merit, says G. G. Gervinus, "of

having brought together for the first time into a whole the tedious and

scattered material of the editions and the many other valuable labours of Tyrwhitt, Heath, Ritson, etc". An important medical work of

Drake's is On the Use of Digitalis in Consumption (five papers

published in the Medical and Physical Journal, London, 1799–1800).

His Literary Hours (1798) were exceedingly popular early in

the 19th century (4th ed., 1820). Drake is also credited with discovering the

poet Henry Neele. 

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