
Cox's Fragmenta II
Further Folios From History
Simon Murphy(Author)
The History Press Ltd
Will be published approx. on 1. October 2012
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-7524-6507-4 (ISBN)
Description
A presumptuous bear imposing on a coachful of ladies, how to behave in the British Museum, the dangers of dallying with a black-eyed girl and the Royal Navy's inaugural biscuit machine are just some of the masterpieces of understated journalism collected by Francis Cox and contained in his Fragmenta. At ninety-four volumes, Cox's scrapbook has to be one of the largest collections of journalistic ephemera ever. For sixty years during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries he accumulated articles on everything from duels to playhouses, and foreign travel to warfare. Following on from the success of the first volume, Simon Murphy has selected more bizarre stories to create another delightful historical miscellany which will intrigue and amuse.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 117 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-6507-4 (9780752465074)
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11/2011
The History Press Ltd
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Simon Murphy has published two collections of Cox's Fragmenta. He lives in Bristol, UK, where he works as an editor.