The delights of the bottle, or, The compleat vintner
Subtitle: with the humours of bubble upstarts, stingy wranglers, dinner spungers, jill tiplers, beef beggers, cook teasers, pan soppers, plate twirlers, table whitlers, drawer biters, spoon pinchers, and other tavern tormenters : a merry poem : to which is added, a south-sea song upon the late bubbles
By: by the Author of the Calvacade
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 5898.96; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Printed by W. Downing ...
Published: 1720
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Poetry; Wine and wine making; Speculation; South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720; English Political satire; South Sea Company
Other titles: Compleat vintner.; A South-Sea Ballad.
Notes: In verse.

Published anonymously. 'Author of the Cavalcade' refers to 'The republican procession' by Edward Ward.

Signatures: A-G⁴.

"A South-Sea ballad, or, Merry remarks upon Exchange-Alley bubbles": [2] p. at end.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 05898.96.

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Kress Lib., 3344

ESTC (RLIN), N28611

Provenance: Bookplate of Johnathan Tempest, Esq. on front pastedown.

From the library of Hugh Bancroft.

With: [Ward, Edward.] The merry travellers ... London: Printed for the author, 1724; [Ward, Edward.] The wand'ring spy ... London: A. Bettesworth ..., 1722; [Ward, Edward.] The parish gutt'lers ... London: Printed in the year 1722; [Ward, Edward.] The northern cuckold ... London: Printed in the year 1721; [Ward, Edward.] The dancing devils ... London: ... A. Bettesworth ..., 1724.

Collation: 8vo: A-G⁴ [$2 signed (-A1)] 28 leaves.

Contemporary Cambridge-style calf with red leather spine label and red sprinkled edges; rebacked.