A presumptuous bear imposing on a coachful of ladies how to behave in the British Museum the dangers of dallying with a black-eyed girl & the Royal Navys inaugural biscuit machine are just some of the masterpieces of understated journalism collected by Francis Cox & contained in his Fragmenta. At ninety-four volumes Coxs scrapbook has to be one of the largest collections of journalistic ephemera ever. For sixty years during the late eighteenth & early nineteenth centuries he accumulated articles on everything from duels to playhouses & foreign travel to warfare. Following on from the success of the first volume Simon Murphy has selected more bizarre stories to create another delightful historical miscellany which will intrigue & amuse.