Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 is a collection of essays by Isaac Disraeli, exploring literary, artistic, and political history through anecdotes and critical reflections. It offers a miscellany of curious facts and biographical sketches, delightful for anyone who enjoys book lore and the byways of literary history.
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Opening of the book
CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. BY ISAAC DISRAELI. A New Edition, EDITED, WITH MEMOIR AND NOTES, BY HIS SON, THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: FREDERICK WARNE AND CO., BEDFORD STREET, STRAND. LONDON: BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. ADVERTISEMENT. This is the first collected edition of a series of works which have separately attained to a great popularity: volumes that have been always delightful to the young and ardent inquirer after knowledge. They offer as a whole a diversified miscellany of literary, artistic, and political history, of critical disquisition and biographic anecdote, such as it is believed cannot be elsewhere found gathered together in a form so agreeable and so
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