Sketches Sartorial, Tonsorial and the Like - A Collection of Light Humorous Verse (Paperback)

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 Tattersall to Roland Washburn White. There are 70 poems in all of which 10 are illustrated. The illustration on the front cover relates to Rupert Ashe: 'The greatest pride of Rupert Ashe was his luxuriant moustache. He took great care to keep it groomed, And even, with restraint, perfumed. He brushed it upward every day, and it made such a grand display, that people who were not the wiser, imagined that he was the Kaiser.'

General

Imprint:	Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2009
First published:	October 2009
Authors:	St Claire Bullock
Illustrators:	Barrington Barber
Dimensions:	196 x 130 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Unsewn / adhesive bound
Pages:	88
ISBN-13:	978-0-85683-266-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-85683-266-9
Barcode:	9780856832666

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