The Siblys of London: A Family on the Esoteric Fringes of Georgian England

by Susan Sommers

Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which claimed to restore the newly dead to life, Ebenezer himself died before he turned fifty and stayed that way despite being surrounded by bottles of the stuff. Asked...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190687320
• ISBN13: 9780190687328
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"