Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists

Timbs, John, 1801-1875· 2 chapters· 69,978 words

This collection of anecdotes, illustrative sketches, and _memorabilia_ generally, relating to the ever fresh and interesting subject of BOOKS AND AUTHORS, is not presented as complete, nor even as containing all the choice material of its kind. The field from which one may gat...

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1. PART I.

This collection of anecdotes, illustrative sketches, and _memorabilia_ generally, relating to the ever fresh and interesting subject of BOOKS AND AUTHORS, is not presented as co...

2. PART II.

_Compiler of “Anecdotes of Lawyers, Doctors and Parsons.”--“Inventions, Discoveries,” &c., &c.--“Standard Jest Book.”--“Railway Book of Fun.”--“Traveller’s New Book of Fun.”--“M...