A merry, ingenious, and diverting work entitled Liber compotorum felicium, or, The true drunkard's delight
Subtitle: being an attempt, in a collection of brave and witty things from English verse and prose, to set forth, in gratitude for Bacchus' bounty, the whole art and philosophy of drinking, to which are added a garland of convivial songs such as may, in praise of proper liquor, be sung by the roaring boys of Elysium and echoed by all choice spirits here below, some account of drinking customs with a selection of toasts, a gallery of notable drunkards, a dictionary of drinking slang, a digest of drunkards' law, and a collection of tried and approved recipes, together with an examination of teetotalism and its miserable songs, an account of some lively deaths, and a selection of drunkards' epitaphs, etc., etc
By: all carefully collected together & in part written by William Juniper
Publisher: Unicorn Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Drinking songs; English wit and humor; Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Other titles: True drunkard's delight.
Notes: Title on spine: The true drunkard's delight.