Bowditch, Nathaniel Ingersoll (1805-1861)

Boston : Ticknor & Fields, 1858

roy. 8vo., cloth , second edition

'A name! If the party had a voice, What mortal would be a Bugg by choice?' - Hood; much enlarged

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English

£1. 2s.

Stonehouse Catalogue (1878)

CD Junior's Catalogue

S014.4b; C087.06/C087.11

CR2

Presentation copy; inscribed, 'Boston, August 1858. Charles Dickens, from N. I. Bowditch.' Dedicated 'To the memory of A. Shurt, ''The Father of American Conveyancing,'' whose name is associated alike with my Daily Toilet and my Daily Occupation.' 'Dickens' is included among 'Names from Ejaculations,' between 'Bigod and Olyfather, and Bosch,' and after 'Damm, Cursin, Cust, Blessing and Blest.' In Household Words, No. 375, Dickens has given a highly amusing account of this work, with specimens of the uncommon and wonderful real names found therein, many of which are more remarkable than most of those collected or coined by himself, and which are enumerated in his 'Life,' ii. 385-6. Captain Cuttle he found mentioned in 'Pepys's Diary.' - An article by Dickens on 'American Changes of Names' appears in Household Words, No. 348.