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Wisdom while you wait : $b Being a foretaste of the glories of the 'Insidecompletuar Britanniaware' ...
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves
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49 totalGuten Morgan! Have you used PIERPONT’S SOAP?
The Editors.
PREFACE.
To Intending Purchasers of our Casket of Jewels.
Secrecy Guaranteed if Required.
Despatch in Delivery.
Humphry Ward’s Iron Buildings.
Warning to Subscribers.
Patent Book Shelf Beds.
Our Wet Summer.
Description
Facetious; mock prospectus of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Language
en
Duration
~1 hours (59K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United Kingdom: privately printed, 1902.
Credits
Debrah Thompson, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Release date
2023-07-11
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the authors
E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
1868–1938
Best known for his warm, witty essays, this prolific English man of letters also moved easily through biography, travel writing, publishing, and the world of magazines. His work has an easy, companionable charm that helped make him a favorite of early 20th-century readers.
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Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves
1856–1944
A sharp, witty observer of British public life, he helped shape the voice of Punch and wrote with a gift for satire, parody, and lively literary biography.
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