Author: MERITON, GEORGE
Title: The Praise of York-Shire Ale (1684-5)
Description: York, Ken Spelman - after John White. 1975. 96mm x 154mm tall (3.75" x 6" approx.). Pp [x], 120. "The book is divided into three parts. The first gives a rollicking narrative of a Rabelaisian jaunt by Bacchus and his court to Northallerton, Easingwold and York, consuming astonishing quantities of the 'humming Yorkshire ale', whilst the second and third parts consist of a Dialogue and a Dialect Glossary" All earthy good humour. Covers lightly creased and a few external marks, otherwise a good copy, in the original pictorial black-printed soft brown card covers.

Keywords: Celia Sack Beer Brewing Yorkshire Dialect Bawdy Ale Ales Drink Lexicon Lexicography Lexicons Dictionary Rabelaisian Rabelais Northallerton Easingwold York Bacchus Bacchanalia Photographed Dictionaries and Languages


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