The wonderful history of the celebrated Friar Bacon, who studies the magic art, and saves a gentleman from the devil to whom he had sold his soul and body : re erects a wonderful brazen head, which was to enable him to secure all England from invasion : it speaks, but loses its virtue by his servant's folly : by his help France is conquered : he makes three wicked thieves, who tried to rob him, dance a hornpipe over hedges into ditches, against their will, with many other curious particulars, 1890.