Eccentrics.- Eccentric Biography; or, Memoirs of Remarkable Female Characters...Authoresses, Swindlers, Fortune-Tellers, Vagrants..., engraved portrait frontispiece and 7 portrait plates, ex-library copy with ink-stamp to pastedown and title verso, abrasion marks to pastedown where label removed, some light browning and offsetting, lacking front free endpapers, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked preserving original gilt backstrip with red morocco label, some wear to corners, J. Cundee, 1803; and others, most 19th century and various subjects, including Notes on Noses (1852), 8vo & 12mo (8)
⁂ First published in 1801 as part of Eccentric Biography; or Sketches of Remarkable Characters, the articles related to women separated and expanded to form the present work. Subjects include Mary Wollstonecraft (with portrait), Aphra Behn, Angelica Kauffman, impostor Mary Toft ("a breeder of rabbits") and the androgynous Chevalière D'Éon, among others.
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