June 12, 2008

Item of the Day: The New Book of Chronicles [1789]

Full Title: The New Book of Chronicles; Delineating in Eccentrical Sketches of the Times a Variety of Modern Characters of the Great and Small Vulgar. London: Printed for T. Massey, Snow-Hill, and sold by all the booksellers of Great Britain, [1789].
 
CHAPTER III.
ARGUMENT.
In those days the fire burned in Gallia, as the multitude mused on their [...]