Micro-Cosmographie
Or, A Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters

Originally published in 1903, this book contains an edition of John Earle's 'Micro-Cosmographie' taken from the sixth edition of 1633.

John Earle (Author)

9781107486607, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 February 2015

140 pages
22.9 x 21.6 x 0.8 cm, 0.28 kg

Originally published in 1903, this book contains an edition of John Earle's 'Micro-Cosmographie' taken from the sixth edition of 1633. Earle skewers the people and organisations of his time with balanced epigrammatic character sketches of types drawn from the various strata of society, ranging from children to drunkards, 'Church-Papists' and 'the Common Singing men'. This witty book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of satire.

A childe
A youg raw preacher
A grave divine
A modest man
A physician
A meere empty wit
A meere alderman
A discontented man
An antiquary
A drunkard
A yonger brother
A formall man
A church-papist
A prison
A selfe-conceited man
A serving man
A reserv'd man
A taverne
A sharke
An insolent man
Acquaintance
A carrier
A complementall man
A fidler
A young man
An old colledge butler
A medling man
An vpstart knight
An idle gallant
A constable
A flatterer
A downe-right scholler
A high spirited man
A plaine country fellow
A meere gull citizen
A lascivious man
A player
A detractor
A rash man
A young gentleman of the Vniversity
A weake man
A tobacco seller
An affected man
A pot-poet
A plausible man
A bowle-alley
The world's wise man
A surgeon
A prophane man
A contemplative man.A shee precise hypocrite
A scepticke in religion
An atturney
A coward
A partiall man
A trumpeter
A vulgar-spirited man
A plodding student
A sordid man
Paules walke
A meere great man
A cooke
A bold forward man
A baker
A pretender to learning
A poore man
A herald
The common singing men
A shopkeeper
A blunt man
A handsome hostesse
A criticke
A sergeant
An ordinary honest man
An vniversity dunne
A stayed man
A suspitious, or iealous man.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]