Giants and Dwarfs (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Giants and Dwarfs<br><br>The Author gratefully acknowledges his indebted ness to his esteemed friend john bullock Esq. of Sevenoaks for the generous loan of his valuable col lection of old and scarce handbills advertisements and engravings relating to giants and dwarfs by the use of which materials the Author has added much to the interest and importance of this book. He also tenders his best thanks to Dr. Robert bigsby the learned historian of Repton; to Dr. W. T. Iliff and to T. C. Noble Esq. for many useful hints and notes upon the subject-matter of this work.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.