Author whose works included Fatal Curiosity; or, the Vision of Silvester. A
Poem (1805) and The Murderer, or, The Fall of Lecas: A Tale (1808). Bounden shared a publisher
with Southey – Longman and his associates. He was also acquainted with John Abraham Heraud through the Philomathic Society
and, via this connection, in August 1824 wrote to Southey, sending a copy of his most recent work, The Deserted
City; Eva, a Tale in Two Cantos; and Other Poems (1824). By 1838 Bounden was being described as ‘the late
Joseph Bounden’, but details of his life remain obscure.