Sunday, May 22, 2011

Elizabeth I: No Beer, No Queen (1920)

. . . it seems to have been a rule of no beer, no queen with her. An old account of reception of Queen Elizabeth at Cambridge states that she left a day earlier than she wished, and that if provision of beer and ale could have been made, her grace would have remained.
W.G. Clifford, Books in Bottles: The Curious in Literature (New York: The Dial Press, 1920).

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Friday, May 13, 2011

Premature Burial (1896)

William Tebb and Edward Perry Vollum, Premature Burial and How It Might Be Prevented (Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim.: London, 1896)

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The Neal Publishing Company (1905)

Janie Screven Heyward, Wild Roses (New York and Washington: The Neal Publishing Company, 1905).

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Tuesday, May 3, 2011