Aubrey john with intro (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Thus. 410 pages inc index, dark blue buckram with gilt titles, faint fade line at top of front board and spine, small ink inscription on FFEP ""T. Wrigley from George Mitchell 12-7-54" contents very good+, small octavo. NOTE* Brief Lives is a collection of short biographies written by John Aubrey (1626-1697) in the last decades of the 17th century. His scurrilous bald, funny pithy and lively comments about the great and good with descriptions such as this on one Lord. The Earl of Oxforde when presenting himself again at court after 7 years self exile for farting when bending to honour the Queen and then leaving the country in shame, was greeted after the incident 7 years later with the words "Most Welcome Sir, we have forgotten the fart".…