Schott's Original Miscellany

Schott's Original Miscellany makes few claims to be exhaustive or even practical. It does, however, claim to be essential. It will afford you great wisdom in the morning, several conversational bons mots for the afternoon, and many an enlightened smile after dark.
Where else can you find, packed onto one page, the thirteen principles of witchcraft, the structure of military hierarchy, all of the clothing-care symbols, a list of the countries where you drive on the left, and a nursery rhyme about sneezing?
Where else but Schott's Original Miscellany will you stumble across the name of John Lennon's cat, the supplier of bagpipes to the Queen, and the brutal methods of murder encountered by Miss Marple?
An encyclopedia? A dictionary? An anthology? An almanac? An amphigouri? A treasury? A commonplace book? Well... yes. Schott's Original Miscellany is all these and, of course, more. A book like no other, Schott's Original Miscellany is entertaining, informative, unpredictible, and utterly addictive.
Ben Schott is a photographer, designer, and trivia collector. He is twenty-eight (although he believes you might prefer to picture him as a white-haired librarian) and lives in Highgate, London.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 08/04/2003
ISBN: 9781582343495
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.64h x 4.85w x 0.82d

Review Citations: Men's Journal 08/01/2003 pg. 28
Vanity Fair 08/01/2003 pg. 68
School Library Journal 01/01/2004 pg. 165
USA Today 12/03/2003 pg. 1
Publishers Weekly 08/01/2003
Library Journal 08/01/2003