Witless Men (2 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book discusses the ALP from 1972 and the performance of its Ministers and others. There is light wear on the cover and the edges of the book have a light tan. Several copies are available. 198 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size D: 7"-8" Tall (177-203mm).…

24pp. Uncut and unstitched, as issued. Housed in recent custom brown cloth clamshell case. Lightly browned. A sole Regency, and seemingly final published edition of a humorous Scottish chapbook, first published at Glasgow in 1772 as The folly of witless women displayâd; or, the history of haverel wives. The work has on occasion been attributed to prolific poet and chapbook writer Dougal Graham (bap. 1721, d. 1779), this seems likely, particularly as it composed in coarse vernacular Scots prose typical of that master of the demotic, and presents bawdy and anarchic scenes of love and marital strife common in his writings. The pseudonym Humphrey Clinker is without question a reference to the titular character of Tobias Smollett's (1721-1771) epistolary picturesque comic masterpiece, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771). This has led some to conclude that Smollett must be responsible for the publication, though this reasoning seems spurious, and likely the name is nothing more than an attempt by unscrupulous publisher's to capitalise on the tremendous success of Smollett's novel. All editions are scarce, with this nineteenth-century edition being no exception; COPAC records copies at five locations (BL, Cambridge, Manchester, NLS, and Oxford), OCLC adds no further. Size: 8vo.…