[CURIOUS CHARACTERS] A COLLECTION OF FOUR HUNDRED PORTRAITS OF REMARKABLE, ECCENTRIC, AND NOTORIOUS PERSONAGES. London: Reeves & Turner, 196 Strand, ca. 1880. Two volumes in marbled boards over one-third crushed Morocco, spines in six compartments, ruled and titled in gilt. 8vos. Binding of Vol 1. separated, general shelfwear and rubbing; plates very good or better.
A collection of engravings “printed from the original copper-plates of Caufield’s Remarkable Characters, Grainer, and Kirby’s Wonderful Museums.” Among those pictures are Napoleon, Matthew Buchinger, John Hopkins the Witch Finder, Francis Trouille the Horned Man, Patrick O’Brien the Irish Giant, Hogarth, Ann Moore the Fasting Woman of Tutbury, Lord Nelson, as well as peddlers, artists, astonishing pedestrians, eccentrics, and other unusual individuals.