Varia
Subtitle: readings from rare books.
By: By J. Hain Friswell.
Publisher: S. Low, son, and Marston
Published: 1866
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Notes: "Books consulted" before each essay.
Title within ornamental border; title vignette (portrait)
Reprinted, with additions, from the Saturday review and the Spectator. cf. Pref.
Table of contents: title: The Angelic Doctor [Thomas Aquinas]; title: Nostradamus.; title: Thomas à Kempis and the Imitatio Christi.; title: Dr. John Faustus.; title: Quevedo.; title: Madame J. M. B. de la Mothe Guion and Quietism.; title: Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Paracelsus, bombast of Hohenheim.; title: Howell the traveller.; title: Michael Scot.; title: Lodowick Muggleton.; title: Sir Thomas Browne.; title: George Psalmanazar.; title: The highwayman, real and ideal.; title: The spirit world and its literature.