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Brewer's Cabinet of Curiosities Ian Crofton

Brewer's Cabinet of Curiosities By Ian Crofton

Brewer's Cabinet of Curiosities by Ian Crofton


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Summary

A Brewer's Christmas gift book, being a treasury of fascinating, serendipitous and occasionally downright peculiar information.

Brewer's Cabinet of Curiosities Summary

Brewer's Cabinet of Curiosities by Ian Crofton

For generations Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable has been hailed not only as a serious work of reference, but also as a treasury of the fascinating, the serendipitous and the downright peculiar. Brewer's Brewer's Cabinet of Curiosities is an irresistibly browsable collection of bizarre and out-of-the-way information, with a strong phrase-and-fable slant, but also including anecdotes, odd news reports, quotations, superstitions, tall tales and frankly unbelievable truths. As in the Cabinets of Curiosities of 17th- and 18th-century collectors and connoisseurs, Brewer's Cabinet of Curiosities has a myriad drawers, cupboards and hidden compartments, wherein the reader may be lost for ever in search of the next freakish specimen or startling revelation. The structure, to suit the leisurely dipper-in, is thematic, and in all there are nigh-on a dozen main sections, with many subdivisions, features, lists, etc., together with a generous smattering of illustrations of the unexpected, the unlikely and the really quite extraordinary.

Brewer's Cabinet of Curiosities Reviews

a compendium of facts and anedotes, some of them genuinely curious. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

About Ian Crofton

Ian Crofton is a freelance writer and editor. His publications include A DICTIONARY OF MUSICAL QUOTATIONS (with Donald Fraser) and A DICTIONARY OF ART QUOTATIONS, and he was editor-in-chief of THE GUINNESS ENCYCLOPEDIA. He contributed entries on history, music and art to BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF MODERN PHRASE AND FABLE, and has written articles for a number of other children's and adults' reference books. His last book for Cassell was BREWER'S BRITAIN AND IRELAND (with John Ayto).

Table of Contents

Alphanumerical Soup A Brewer's Bestiary Compendium Toponymicum: Places and Nations Flora Breweriana Kings and Queens, Saints and Sinners Liquors and Victuals Linguistical Loafing and Lexical Byways A Musical Miscellany Secrets and Lies of the Cosmos A Valetudinarian's Vade Mecum

Additional information

GOR002005414
9780304368013
0304368016
Brewer's Cabinet of Curiosities by Ian Crofton
Used - Very Good
Hardback
John Murray Press
20060928
288
N/A
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