Giants and Dwarfs
$25.00
The original 1868 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector’s Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint.
Edward J. Wood’s Giants and Dwarfs (1868) is at once scholarly and whimsically curious—a cabinet of curiosities drawing together biblical exegesis, mythological tales, antiquarian lore, and sensational accounts of prodigious bodies. Written with a wide-ranging antiquarian spirit, the book treats giants and dwarfs not merely as physical anomalies, but as cultural symbols: figures in scripture, elements of civic spectacle, and expressions of the human imagination pushed to its extremes. From the Nephilim and Goliath to Cornish giants, Bartholomew Fair dwarfs, and the manufactured marvels of showmen, Wood traces how societies across time have transformed abnormal stature into enduring metaphors of power, folly, and wonder.
