CONCEIVED, WRITTEN AND DESIGNED BY BEN SCHOTT - Schott's Original Miscellany

London, United Kingdom, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002. 2nd Impression, Binding: Cloth, Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 0747563209 Hardback Hardback. What other book can boast an index that includes shoelace lengths, sign language, and the seven deadly sins; duellling and dwarves; egg sizes and election results? Where else can you find, packed onto one page the names of golf strokes, a history of the Hat Tax, cricketing dismissals, nouns of assemblage, betting-odds slang, and the flag of Guadeloupe? Where else will you stumble across John Lennon's cat, the supplier of bagpipes to the Queen, the twelve labours of Hercules, and the brutal methods of murder encountered by Miss Marple? 158 pp.