Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The London Directory, for the Year 1789;
The London Directories, 1677-1855
Author: Charles William Frederick GossPublisher: London : D. Archer
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature
Author: The London Directory
Author: Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
Catalogue of the Literature and History of the British Islands ...
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Book of British Topography
Author: John Parker AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Isles
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Directories of London, 1677-1977
Author: Peter J. AtkinsPublisher: London ; New York : Mansell
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The Book of British Topography. A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
Author: John Parker AndersonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385430135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Siblys of London
Author: Susan SommersPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190687339
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which claimed to restore the newly dead to life, Ebenezer himself died before he turned fifty and stayed that way despite being surrounded by bottles of the stuff. Asked to execute his will, which urged the continued manufacture of Solar Tincture, and left legacies for multiple and concurrent wives as well as an illegitimate son whose name the deceased could not recall, Manoah found his brother's record of financial and moral indiscretions so upsetting that he immediately resigned his executorship. Ebenezer's death brought a premature conclusion to a colorfully chaotic life, lived on the fringes of various interwoven esoteric subcultures. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Mitchell Sommers has woven together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to scholarly accounts of Ebenezer and Manoah, while placing the entire Sibly family firmly in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Siblys of London provides fascinating insight into the lives of a family who lived just outside our usual historical range of vision.