Popular Errors Explained
In 1841 John Timbs wrote a book called Popular Errors Explained. It went on - with Timbs'' other great series ''Curiosities of ...'' - to become one of the great popular books of the 19th century, running into many editions and selling hundreds of thousands of copies. Some say the popularity of his one hundred and fifty volumes led him to outsell a certain Mr Dickens.
Stewart McCartney, under the ...
In 1841 John Timbs wrote a book called Popular Errors Explained. It went on - with Timbs'' other great series ''Curiosities of ...'' - to become one of the great popular books of the 19th century, running into many editions and selling hundreds of thousands of copies. Some say the popularity of his one hundred and fifty volumes led him to outsell a certain Mr Dickens.
Stewart McCartney, under the ...
