(Kirby, R.S., editor) | Accounts of eccentric individuals and events

(Kirby, R.S., editor)

Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters…London: R.S. Kirby, 1820

5 volumes (of 6), 8vo (221 x 137 mm). Numerous plates throughout, foxing, browning, and offsetting, Vol. II with preliminary eaves loose from text block. Green publisher's cloth, covers decoratively stamped in blind, flat spines with gilt rules, yellow coated endpapers; overall rubbed, spines sunned and chipped, Vol. II with most significant loss, some soiling, Vols. I and II with boards detached, Vols. III and IV with upper boards detached and lower boards nearly detached, Vol. V with textblock detached from binding.

Accounts of eccentric individuals and events, including extraordinary animals, bizarre punishments, boiling fountains, child prodigies, conjuring, ghosts, giants, mermaids, odd crimes, self-crucifixion, strange murders, ventriliquism, visions, witches, etc. 

REFERENCE:

 Exemplars, p. 93

PROVENANCE:

Johnston (bookplate to front pastedown of Volume IV)