Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum; or, Magazine of remarkable characters. Including all the curiosities of nature and art, from the remotest period to the present time, drawn from every authentic source. Illustrated with one hundred and twenty-four engravings. Chiefly taken from rare and curious prints or original drawings. Complete in 6 volumes. First edition.

Verlag: London: R. S. Kirby, 1820

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8vo. 14 x 21.7 cm. 6 volumes. Uniformly bound in contemporary half caramel calf with gilt spine and 2 leather labels. Very good. 124 bizarre engraved plates.OCLC Number 145901578.Notes:For the most part a reissue with new title pages, of "Kirby's wonderful and scientific museum," later "Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum." which was published at London from 1803 to 1820. cf. British Museum Catalogue. Vol.I: viii + 476pp.; Vol.II: 490pp.; Vol.III: 434pp.; Vol.IV: 432pp.; Vol.V: 428pp.; Vol.VI: 492pp; Indexes in each volume (except for Vol. I which has a "Contents" at the front of the volume instead). B/w engraved frontispieces & plates. A six-volume compilation of accounts of notable eccentrics, freaks (human and otherwise), inventions, etc. - though the entries seem slanted towards the subject of the more unusual aspects of humanity. Some of the hundreds of subjects covered include: extraordinary animals, ballooning, bizarre punishments, boiling fountains, child prodigies, cross-dressers, dwarfs, extraordinary burials, conjuring, eccentrics,foxes, ghosts, giants, gypsies, hermits, long-livers, mermaids, misers, odd crimes, pygmies, self-crucifixion, strange murders, ventriliquism, visions, witches. The work was produced by R. S. Kirby, a London bookseller, who had had worked for one Alexander Hogg, publisher of a similar cabinet of curiosities, the "Wonderful Magazine and Marvellous Chronicle" which appeared in parts in the late eighteenth century. The two apparently worked together in the early years of the nineteenth century on another "Wonderful Magazine", until Kirby allegedly purloined not only Hogg's ideas, but much of his work, producing his own "Wonderful Magazine." A lawsuit followed, but Kirby continued to publish, producing his "Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum" in parts between 1803 and 1820. Provenance Jean-Claude Carrière (1932-2021).

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Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum; or, Magazine of remarkable characters. Including all the curiosities of nature and art, from the remotest period to the present time, drawn from every authentic source. Illustrated with one hundred and twenty-four engravings. Chiefly taken from rare and curious prints or original drawings. Complete in 6 volumes. First edition.
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Kirby, R. S., editor and publisher (1793-1820 fl.)
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London: R. S. Kirby
Veröffentlichungsjahr
1820
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