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Re: Great title



I'll have to admit that your pamphlet beats our strangest title by a long
shot!  My personal favorite is "A pickle for the Knowing Ones"  by Lord
Timothy Dexter.  In the second edition , he included an entire page of
stops, suggesting to his readers that they could "pepr and solt it as they
please."  Mr. Dexter (b1747) was no Lord but a title he decided to claim
anyway since he had managed to rise above his very poor background to a
rather well-to-do merchant.

We have a reprint of the 1838 edition (c1881).

At 12:45 PM 8/18/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I'd like to nominate this pamphlet in our collection as Most Entertaining
>Title of the Month :
>
>The drunkard's looking glass ; reflecting a faithful likeness of the
>drunkard in sundry very interesting attitudes, with lively representations
>of the many strange Capers which he cuts at different Stages of his Disease;
>as first, when he has only "a drop in his eye"; second, when he is "half
>shaved"; third, when he is getting "a little on the staggers or so"; and
>fourth and fifth and so on, till he is "quite capsized," or "snug under the
>table with the dogs"; and can "stick to the floor without holding on" / by
>M.L. Weems.
>
>8th ed.  Baltimore : Printed for Mrs. F.M. Weems (widow of the author),
>1843.  Price twenty-five cents.
>
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