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The Book of Wonderful Characters Memoirs and Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all Ages and Countries
Henry Wilson, James Caulfield
1874
John Camden Hotten : London
7.5" by 5"
xxii, [1], 23-416, 40pp
SUMMARY
A thoroughly illustrated copy of this volume of eccentric biographies.
Colour Plates,Publishers' Original Binding
Overall Condition: Good
This book weighs 1 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
A later edition of this scarce work.
This volume is a collection of biographies of remarkable and eccentric people, including Francis Battalia the stone-eater, Jacob Hall the rope dancer and Margaret Finch Queen of the Gipsies.
With sixty one full page engravings, with the frontispiece hand coloured.
collated, complete.
Undated, dated from the advertisements to the rear of the volume.
With forty pages of adverts to the rear dated September 1874.
CONDITION
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some fading to the spine and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Previous owner bookplate to the front pastedown for Pat Murray. Front hinge starting but remains firm. Internally, firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages.
Overall Condition: Good
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