The club : or, a grey-cap for a green head. Containing maxims, advice, and cautions. Being a dialogue between a father and son. In which is Interspers'd the following Characters, Viz. Antiquary, Buffoon, Critic, Detractor, Envioso, Flatterer, Gamester, Hypocrite, Impertinent, Knave, Lawyer, Morose, Newsmonger, Opiniator, Projector, Quack, Rake, Swearer, Traveller, Usurer, Wiseman, Xantippe, Youth, Zany the Vintner. These Characters being merely intended, to expose Vice and Folly; let none pretend to a Key; nor seek for another's Picture, lest he find his own. For, Qui capit ille facit. In vino veritas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Puckle, James, 1667?-1724.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life skills--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.

Life skills.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([20],188,[8]p.,plate )

Edition:

The seventh edition, with additions.

Other Title:

Club

Place of Publication:

Dublin : printed for Peter Wilson, Bookseller, at Gay's-Head, near Fowns's-Street, in Dame-Street, MDCCXLIII. [1743]

Notes:

Dedication signed: James Puckle.

The preliminary leaves include 11 pages of 'Subscribers names'; the final leaves contain an index, and a final advertisement leaf.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T97325.

OCLC:

642760379