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, News-Monger, Opiniater, Projector, Quack, Rake, Swearer, Traveller, Usurer, Wiseman, Xantippe, Youth, Zany, the Vintner. These Characters being meerly intended, to expose Vice and Folly; let none pretend to a Key; nor seek for another's Picture, least he find his own. For, Qui capit ille facit. In vino veritas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Puckle, James, 1667?-1724.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maxims.

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

Life skills.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (12,179,[1]p.,plate ) port. ;

Edition:

The fifth edition, with additions.

Other Title:

Club

Place of Publication:

London : printed for John King, at Sir Walter Raleigh's Head; and Thomas King, at Shakespear's Head, both in Moorfields, near Little Moorgate, [1733?]

Notes:

Dedication signed: James Puckle.

With a list of subscribers and an index.

Another fifth edition published in 1733.

Reproduction of original from William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N26569.

OCLC:

642181668