{"product_id":"the-book-of-wonderful-characters-memoirs-and-anecdotes-of-remarkable-and-eccentric-persons-in-all-ages-and-countries-paperback-9781108044400","title":"The Book of Wonderful Characters; Memoirs and Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in All Ages and Countries (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108044400","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Book of Wonderful Characters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMemoirs and Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in All Ages and Countries\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA collection of early nineteenth-century biographical sketches of 'eccentric' characters, with illustrations, reprinted in 1869.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHenry Wilson (Author), James Caulfield (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108044400, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 February 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e538 pages, 60 b\/w illus.  1 colour illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrintmaker James Caulfield (1764–1826) spent much of his career publishing illustrated books about 'remarkable persons'. He began his first series around 1788 and continued it sporadically from 1790 to 1795, with books on a similar theme continuing to appear in the first decades of the nineteenth century. More than forty years after his death, this collection of biographies (produced in collaboration with Henry Wilson (fl. 1820–30)) was republished in 1869. The edition's introduction explains that the renewed interest in these characters comes from the fact that 'we have nearly lost all, and are daily losing what little remains of, our individuality'. The vignettes, accompanied by engravings of each individual, describe a wide-ranging group - from the man who died aged 152 to a 'remarkable glutton' to a woman who lived on the smell of flowers - their only common factor being that they were in some way 'wonderful'.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreliminary\u003cbr\u003e 1. Francis Battalia, the stone-eater\u003cbr\u003e 2. Miss Whitehead, the bank nun\u003cbr\u003e 3. Daniel Dancer, the remarkable miser\u003cbr\u003e 4. Chevalier Desseasau, the vain dwarf\u003cbr\u003e 5. Matthew Lovat, who crucified himself\u003cbr\u003e 6. Baron D'Aguilar, of Starvation Farm\u003cbr\u003e 7. Old Books, of Ripon in Yorkshire\u003cbr\u003e 8. Wybrand Lolkes, the Dutch dwarf\u003cbr\u003e 9. Jacob Hall, the rope-dancer\u003cbr\u003e 10. Henry Constantine Jennings, the remarkable virtuoso\u003cbr\u003e 11. Henry Lemoine, an eccentric bookseller\u003cbr\u003e 12. Matthew Buchinger, the Little Man of Nuremburg\u003cbr\u003e 13. Henry Jenkins, the modern Methusaleh\u003cbr\u003e 14. Bertholde, prime minister to Alboinus\u003cbr\u003e 15. Lord Rokeby, of singular eccentricity\u003cbr\u003e 16. Foster Powell, the astonishing pedestrian\u003cbr\u003e 17. Joseph Boruwlaski, the Polish dwarf\u003cbr\u003e 18. Ann Moore, the fasting woman\u003cbr\u003e 19. Floram Marchand, the great water-spouter\u003cbr\u003e 20. Jane Lewson, an eccentric old lady\u003cbr\u003e 21. Peter the Wild Boy, of the woods of Hamelin\u003cbr\u003e 22. William Stevenson, a notorious beggar\u003cbr\u003e 23. John Broughton, a notorious pugilist\u003cbr\u003e 24. Joseph Clark, the posture-maker\u003cbr\u003e 25. Thomas Wood, the abstemious miller\u003cbr\u003e 26. Nathaniel Bentley, the well-known 'Dirty Dick'\u003cbr\u003e 27. Jeffrey Dunstan, Mayor of Garrat\u003cbr\u003e 28. Henry Dimsdale, Mayor of Garrat\u003cbr\u003e 29. George Morland, a celebrated painter\u003cbr\u003e 30. Joanna Southcott, an extraordinary fanatic\u003cbr\u003e 31. Thomas Laugher, commonly called 'Old Tommy'\u003cbr\u003e 32. Margaret McAvoy, the blind girl\u003cbr\u003e 33. Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars\u003cbr\u003e 34. Thomas Cooke, the notorious Islington miser\u003cbr\u003e 35. Eve Fleigen, who lived on the smell of flowers\u003cbr\u003e 36. Mary Anne Talbot, the female sailor\u003cbr\u003e 37. Renwick Williams, commonly called the Monster\u003cbr\u003e 38. Jenny Darney, a character in Cumberland\u003cbr\u003e 39. Samuel Terry, the Botany Bay Rothschild\u003cbr\u003e 40. Daniel Lambert, of surprising corpulency\u003cbr\u003e 41. Thomas Britton, the musical small coal-man\u003cbr\u003e 42. Elizabeth Woodcock, who was buried in snow nearly eight days\u003cbr\u003e 43. John Elwes, the remarkable miser\u003cbr\u003e 44. Jeffery Hudson, dwarf to Charles I\u003cbr\u003e 45. Nice New, a well-known character at Reading\u003cbr\u003e 46. John Valerius, born without arms\u003cbr\u003e 47. Elizabeth Brownrigg, executed for cruelty and murder\u003cbr\u003e 48. John Smith, better known by the name of Buckhorse\u003cbr\u003e 49. Thomas Hills Everitt, the enormous baby\u003cbr\u003e 50. Elias Hoyle, of Sowerby, Yorkshire\u003cbr\u003e 51. Joseph Capper, the enemy of flies\u003cbr\u003e 52. Margaret Finch, Queen of the Gipsies\u003cbr\u003e 53. Miss Hawtin, born without arms\u003cbr\u003e 54. Charles Domery, the remarkable glutton\u003cbr\u003e 55. Thomas Parr, who died at the age of 152 years\u003cbr\u003e 56. Thomas Hudson, remarkable for his misfortunes\u003cbr\u003e 57. Claude Ambroise Seurat, the living skeleton\u003cbr\u003e 58. George Romondo, an eccentric mimic\u003cbr\u003e 59. Francis Trovillou, the horned man\u003cbr\u003e 60. Samuel McDonald, commonly called 'Big Sam'\u003cbr\u003e 61. Miss Harvey, the beautiful albiness\u003cbr\u003e 62. Sam House, the patriotic public\u003cbr\u003e 63. Barbara Urslerin, the hairy-faced woman\u003cbr\u003e 64. Mary East, alias James How\u003cbr\u003e 65. Daniel Cuerton, and his astonishing feats\u003cbr\u003e 66. Jemmy Gordon, an eccentric character of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e 67. The Chevalier D'Eon, who passed as a woman\u003cbr\u003e 68. Peter Williamson, remarkable for his captivity and sufferings\u003cbr\u003e 69. 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