More than half of the hundred publications written by the physician Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869) were on non-medical topics. This reissue of the 1852 first edition of his most famous work (never subsequently out of print) shows the breadth of Roget's own knowledge and interests.

Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), physician and author, published this first edition of his most famous work in 1852.