Oedipus Romanus: Proving Twelve Caesars are the Twelve Signs of The Zodiac

Oedipus Romanus: Proving Twelve Caesars are the Twelve Signs of The ZodiacThe Oedipus Romanus: Or An Attempt To Prove That The Twelve Caesars Are The Twelve Signs Of The Zodiac By Rev G Townsend Printed by A. J. Valpy, Tooke's Court Chancy Lane. Sold By J. Hatched 190 Picadilly, London, 1819. Half leather binding. 147 pages. A most curious work, inspired by the "Oedipus Judaicus" of Sir William Drummond who argued "that the antient Jews, like the other nations of antiquitiy, had their esoteric, and their exoteric doctrines"

" This volume contains information about South & East Perthshire

The other principals in the poem are less easy to identify

Small name written to front endpaper

on an eponymous promontory overlooking the North Sea

trained himself to paint in watercolours

Pages lovely and clean

He is also the author of

Poet and historical novelist Robert Graves gives an insight into the life and times of notorious Victorian murderer William 'Billy' Palmer

In paper covered boards

At this stage it was proposed that Miss Margaret Shaen 3 should finish the task and she took to England a quantity of the relevant papers

binding square and with all contents present

even when William Richmond happened to be a member of it