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BURTON, RICHARD F., Sir. 1865 Stone Talk.
Stone Talk (Lithofonema); being, Some of the Marvellous Savings of a Petral Portion of Fleet Street, London, to one Doctor Polyglott, Ph.D. By Frank Baker, D.O.N. [pseud.]. 8vo, original violet cloth, binding cocked, spine faded, ends rubbed; 1/4 morocco folding case. With Burton's calling card laid in. London, 1865
- Notes: first edition, limited to 200 copies, of a bitter satire in doggerel, in which "Burton strikes out, in telling fashion, at many of his enemies and the constraints imposed by British society"--Casada 62. Penzer, pages 77-78 ("certainly one of the cleverest of Burton''s books, although it is practically unknown").
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