Watch your thirst. Play,
Wister, Owen, 1860- *A 9800.3 Watch your thirst. A dry opera in three acts. With a preface by
Samuel Johnson. Illustrations by George Howe.
— New York. The Macmillan Co. 1923. viii, (1), 175 pp. Plates. 27% cm. No. 518 of an edition of 1000 autographed copies. The preface is a supposititious letter from Samuel Johnson. A burlesque on prohibition. The scene is laid on Mount Olympus.
This card was printed at the Boston & Public Library, August 8, 1923. M6900 — T.r. Play. — Prohibition. —"Johnson, Samuel, LL.D., 1709-1784. —
Howe, George, of Philadelphia, illus. — Parodies and burlesques.