Printmaker James Caulfield (1764–1826) spent much of his career publishing illustrated books about 'remarkable persons'. He began his first series around 1788 and continued it sporadically from 1790 to 1795, with books on a similar theme continuing to appear in the first decades of the nineteenth century. More than forty years after his death, this collection of biographies (produced in collaboration with Henry Wilson (fl. 1820–30)) was republished in 1869. The edition's introduction explains that the renewed interest in these characters comes from the fact that 'we have nearly lost all, and are daily losing what little remains of, our individuality'. The vignettes, accompanied by engravings of each individual, describe a wide-ranging group - from the man who died aged 152 to a 'remarkable glutton' to a woman who lived on the smell of flowers - their only common factor being that they were in some way 'wonderful'.

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- Date Published: February 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108044400
- length: 538 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.68kg
- contains: 60 b/w illus. 1 colour illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preliminary
1. Francis Battalia, the stone-eater
2. Miss Whitehead, the bank nun
3. Daniel Dancer, the remarkable miser
4. Chevalier Desseasau, the vain dwarf
5. Matthew Lovat, who crucified himself
6. Baron D'Aguilar, of Starvation Farm
7. Old Books, of Ripon in Yorkshire
8. Wybrand Lolkes, the Dutch dwarf
9. Jacob Hall, the rope-dancer
10. Henry Constantine Jennings, the remarkable virtuoso
11. Henry Lemoine, an eccentric bookseller
12. Matthew Buchinger, the Little Man of Nuremburg
13. Henry Jenkins, the modern Methusaleh
14. Bertholde, prime minister to Alboinus
15. Lord Rokeby, of singular eccentricity
16. Foster Powell, the astonishing pedestrian
17. Joseph Boruwlaski, the Polish dwarf
18. Ann Moore, the fasting woman
19. Floram Marchand, the great water-spouter
20. Jane Lewson, an eccentric old lady
21. Peter the Wild Boy, of the woods of Hamelin
22. William Stevenson, a notorious beggar
23. John Broughton, a notorious pugilist
24. Joseph Clark, the posture-maker
25. Thomas Wood, the abstemious miller
26. Nathaniel Bentley, the well-known 'Dirty Dick'
27. Jeffrey Dunstan, Mayor of Garrat
28. Henry Dimsdale, Mayor of Garrat
29. George Morland, a celebrated painter
30. Joanna Southcott, an extraordinary fanatic
31. Thomas Laugher, commonly called 'Old Tommy'
32. Margaret McAvoy, the blind girl
33. Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars
34. Thomas Cooke, the notorious Islington miser
35. Eve Fleigen, who lived on the smell of flowers
36. Mary Anne Talbot, the female sailor
37. Renwick Williams, commonly called the Monster
38. Jenny Darney, a character in Cumberland
39. Samuel Terry, the Botany Bay Rothschild
40. Daniel Lambert, of surprising corpulency
41. Thomas Britton, the musical small coal-man
42. Elizabeth Woodcock, who was buried in snow nearly eight days
43. John Elwes, the remarkable miser
44. Jeffery Hudson, dwarf to Charles I
45. Nice New, a well-known character at Reading
46. John Valerius, born without arms
47. Elizabeth Brownrigg, executed for cruelty and murder
48. John Smith, better known by the name of Buckhorse
49. Thomas Hills Everitt, the enormous baby
50. Elias Hoyle, of Sowerby, Yorkshire
51. Joseph Capper, the enemy of flies
52. Margaret Finch, Queen of the Gipsies
53. Miss Hawtin, born without arms
54. Charles Domery, the remarkable glutton
55. Thomas Parr, who died at the age of 152 years
56. Thomas Hudson, remarkable for his misfortunes
57. Claude Ambroise Seurat, the living skeleton
58. George Romondo, an eccentric mimic
59. Francis Trovillou, the horned man
60. Samuel McDonald, commonly called 'Big Sam'
61. Miss Harvey, the beautiful albiness
62. Sam House, the patriotic public
63. Barbara Urslerin, the hairy-faced woman
64. Mary East, alias James How
65. Daniel Cuerton, and his astonishing feats
66. Jemmy Gordon, an eccentric character of Cambridge
67. The Chevalier D'Eon, who passed as a woman
68. Peter Williamson, remarkable for his captivity and sufferings
69. Madam Teresia, the Corsican fairy.
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Henry Wilson
James Caulfield