This timely reprint by the Apocryphile Press has brought Anson's fascinating work within the pocket of the interested layperson, although it too may become scarce, like the original version in its turn! Overall an excellent effort, marked down only slightly due to the quality of the reproduction of the photographs, but well worth getting. ( )

A legendary tome, one of Peter F. Anson's defining works, a loving-compiled catalogue of the bizarre phenomenon of the "wandering bishop" - originally a bishop without jurisdiction but now applying to a class of bishops claiming apostolic succession from one or more of the historic churches but more often than not not recognised by the responsible See and presiding over a smaller or larger splinter body owing allegiance to them and displaying a variable allegiance to orthodox doctrine. Endlessly fascinating and very scarce in the original edition (allegedly owing to the eagerness of the said prelates in buying-up copies to see what was said about them!) ( )