Buy this book on-line TIMPSON, JOHN: : TIMPSON'S ENGLISH ECCENTRICSLONDON.JARROLD,1991. ISBN 0711705593.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Minimal shelf-wear to dw/dj edges and a small closed nick to head of dw/dj's spine/backstrip. Pictorial colour decorated dw/dj.Red paper-covered boards with gilt letters to upper board and to spine/backstrip and pictorial endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn, 224pp includes profuse b/w+colour photographs; b/w+colour contemporary illustrations; a Bibliography and an Index.
'TIMPSON's English Eccentrics' takes a look at people who would appear eccentric to most of us in any age,and on the whole endearingly so.He has chosen over 120 characters to write about, from the 18thC through to current day.Characters whose general behaviour or lifestyle were,or are,considered extremely bizarre.The collection is brought to life with old engravings,paintings and printed ephemera from the archives, along with specially commissioned photographs and illustrations. Among these eccentrics you will find the preacher John Fitzgerald who removed his boots and stockings during sermons to allow greater freedom of movement,a miser by the name of Daniel Dancer who warmed his food by sitting on it rather than waste money on a fire,and George "Beau" Brummell who had his sedan chair brought indoors so that he would not dirty his shoes on the pavement or have a hair blown out of place. Timpson's distinctive style coupled with his unique sense of humour makes this book an extremely amusing and enjoyable read.
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