Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1

How it begins

LONDON: FREDERICK WARNE AND CO., BEDFORD STREET, STRAND. LONDON: BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. This is the first collected edition of a series of works which have separately attained to a great popularity: volumes that have been always delightful to the young and ardent inquirer after knowledge. They offer as a whole a diversified miscellany of literary, artistic, and political history, of critical disquisition and biographic anecdote, such as it is believed cannot be elsewhere found gathered together in a form so agreeable and so attainable.