Cox's Fragmenta: An Historical Miscellany - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752451715 ISBN 13: 9780752451718

Publisher: The History Press, 2010

Synopsis

Some of the funniest and most bizarre news stories printed between 1750 and 1830 Erotic misdemeanors in an Irish bean-field, the recipe for a frog barometer fresh from the French court, a parrot convicted of heresy and burnt at the stake in Spain, and a Dutch stage effect for ejecting a wig by means of a spring during Hamlet’s ghost scene are just some of the masterpieces of understated journalism collected by Francis Cox and contained in his Fragmenta. At 97 volumes, Cox’s scrapbook is one of the largest collections of journalistic ephemera ever. For 60 years during the late 18th and early 19th centuries he accumulated articles on everything from duels to playhouses, and foreign travel to warfare. Simon Murphy has selected the most amusing and bizarre to create an historical miscellany which will intrigue and delight.

About this title

About the Author:

Simon Murphy has taught in South Africa and America, and now lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0752451715
• ISBN 13: 9780752451718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Murphy Simon