Obesity.- Lambert (Daniel).- Life (The) of that Wonderful and Extraordinarily Heavy Man, the Late Danl. Lambert...with an Account of Men Noted for their Corpulency..., second edition, woodcut frontispiece, title with ownership name trimmed to head, some spotting, lightly browned, gutter split at p.23 with leaves loose, disbound, Stamford, J. Drakard, 1809; and a laid down printed handbill advertising an exhibition of Lambert in Leicester Square, 8vo (2)
⁂ Daniel Lambert of Leicester (1770-1809) was the largest man of his time in England. From 1806 he was forced to exhibit himself after becoming unable to work. He died suddenly in 1809, weighing over 52 stone.
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