The drunkard's looking glass : reflecting a faithful likeness of the drunkard in sundry very interesting attitudes, with lively representations of the many strange capers which he cuts at different stages of his disease / by M.L. Weems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Temperance--United States.

Temperance.

Alcoholism--United States.

Alcoholism.

Alcoholism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (63 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

8th ed.

Other Title:

Drunkard's looking glass

Place of Publication:

Baltimore [Md.] : Printed for Mrs. F.M. Weems, (widow of the author,), 1843 [c1838] (R. Neilson)

Notes:

"As first, when he has only 'a drop in his eye,' second, when he is 'half shaved,' third, when he is getting 'a little on the staggers or so,' and fourth, and fifth, and so on, till he is 'quite capsized,' or 'snug under the table with the dogs,' and can "stick to the floor without holding on.'"

Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 102467.

OCLC:

12