Testaments, No. 1: The Testament of a Vivisector.

£40 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A few slight stains to the wrappers and lower wrapper partly sunned, but a very good copy indeed. The T.S. Eliot scholar Anthony Cuda posits this first instalment of Davidson’s Testaments series as a source for Eliot: “Another of Davidson’s speakers, who seems to have had a similarly haunting effect on Eliot, relates with philosophical detachment the details of a ghastly vivisection he performed on a dying man whom he had taken into his care. “I study pain,” the narrator of Davidson’s The Testament of a Vivisector explains before dismembering the paralyzed man, “measure it and invent it”.”

• Year: 1901

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