1807-1823 6 Vols Curiosities of Literature; A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature

Description

Leather Binding

Bound in a half calf binding with marbled paper boards.

This is an eclectic, complete six-volume set of Curiosities of Literature and A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature, with three volumes in each series.

The first series is the fifth edition; revised, altered and enlarged with new articles, consisting of:

Curiosities of Literature Volume I (1807). This volume includes chapters on indexes, anecdotes of errata, addenda, bibliomania, destruction of books, libraries, patrons, and the custom of saluting after sneezing.

Volume II (1807). This copy covers critics, abridgers, Bentley’s Milton, little books, poetical and grammatical deaths, literary blunders, the influence of names, and anecdotes of solitude, among much more.

Volume III (1817), features chapters on the names of our streets, pantomimical characters, Robinson Crusoe, drinking customs in England, condemned poets, and Felton the political assassin.

The second series is the first edition of this series, consisting of: 

A Second Series of Curiosities in Literature Consisting of Researches in Literary, Biographical, and Political History; of Critical and Philosophical Inquiries and of Secret History Volume I (1823). The first volume explores: Cicero viewed as a collector, quotation, parodies, medicine and morals, the domestic history of Sir Edward Coke, masques, and more.

Volume II (1823) covers the confusion of words, political nicknames, autographs, The Book of Death, toleration, and an apology for the Parisian Massacre.

Volume III (1823) includes chapters on dreams at the dawn of philosophy, literary forgeries, a bibliognoste, literary residences, true sources of secret history, and The Pearl Bibles with six thousand errata.