BY JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A.
Schooldays of Eminent Men. With Sketches of the Progress of Education from the Reign of King Alfred to that of Queen Victoria, and Memoirs of the School and College Days of the most Eminent Men in British History. With Illustrations, price 5s.
Popular Errors Explained and Illustrated. Contents:—Errors respecting the Economy of Man; Natural Phenomena; the Progress of Society; Science, Art, and Invention; Traditional History; Natural History; Fabulous Animals; Superstition and Credulity; Erroneous Laws and Customs; Domestic History, &c. An entirely New Edition. With Frontispiece and Vignette. Price 3s. 6d.
Curiosities of History; with New Lights. With Frontispiece and Vignette. Price 3s. 6d.
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Things Not Generally Known Familiarly Explained. With Frontispiece and Vignette. Price 3s. 6d.
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Curiosities of London; exhibiting the most Rare and Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis, Past and Present, with nearly Fifty Years' Personal Recollections. In a volume of 800 pages, price 14s., with a Portrait of the Author from a Painting by T. J. Gullick.