Sketches Sartorial, Tonsorial and the Like: A Collection of Light, Humorous Verse
St Claire Bullock
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Description for Sketches Sartorial, Tonsorial and the Like: A Collection of Light, Humorous Verse
paperback. In these witty poems, St Claire Bullock ponders the foibles and vanities of us mortals. Written in rhyming couplets, they follow the style of Hilaire Belloc, Ogden Nash and Edward Lear, with the author's own comic flourish. Some poems are represented in pen and ink caricatures. Illustrator(s): Barber, Barrington. Num Pages: 88 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 113.
St Claire Bullock - a Professor of Philosophy, no less - in the intervals between pondering the great questions of life, turned his hand to penning light verse in the manner of Hilaire Belloc, Ogden Nash and Edward Lear. In rhyming couplets these wry and witty poems ponder the foibles and vanities of mortals. Some of these are captured in pen and ink drawings which caricature the subject of the poems. Each character is given an amusing name, beginning with Master Cecil Abercorn, through Clarence Castle, Serena Huff, The Marchioness of Mal de Mer, Major Houghton Reid and Thomas Tinkham ... Read more
St Claire Bullock - a Professor of Philosophy, no less - in the intervals between pondering the great questions of life, turned his hand to penning light verse in the manner of Hilaire Belloc, Ogden Nash and Edward Lear. In rhyming couplets these wry and witty poems ponder the foibles and vanities of mortals. Some of these are captured in pen and ink drawings which caricature the subject of the poems. Each character is given an amusing name, beginning with Master Cecil Abercorn, through Clarence Castle, Serena Huff, The Marchioness of Mal de Mer, Major Houghton Reid and Thomas Tinkham ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Shepheard-Walwyn United Kingdom
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856832666
SKU
V9780856832666
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-33
About St Claire Bullock
St Claire Bullock is the pseudonym for a Professor of Philosophy and Congregationalist minister from the southern states of America. The book is published posthumously
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