A New Art Teaching How to be Plucked, Being a Treatise After the Fasion of Aristotle; Writ for the Use of Students in the Universities, to Which is Added a Synopsis of Drinking By Scriblerus Redividus

Caswall, Edward

Published by J Vincent, Oxford, 1837

About this Item

xviii+40 pp., a witty account of plucks, ability to show idleness and ignorance in exams compared with passes in real degree exams, a very popular book in early Victorian times. Plucks were to show the degrees in ignorance, and this book was a satire on idle undergrads; the author was a BNC man who became an Anglican cleric but converted to Rome Size: Sm 8vo. Seller Inventory # 006080

Bibliographic Details

Title: A New Art Teaching How to be Plucked, Being ...

Publisher: J Vincent, Oxford

Publication Date: 1837

Binding: Recent Rebind Cloth & Marbled

Illustrator: Fold Out Plate

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: Seventh Edition.