1907 The Maxims of Methuselah: Being the Advice Given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem's Coming of Age in Regard to Women

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and decorations throughout. Collated complete. A humorous rendition, in scriptural verse, of the great patriarch Methuselah's views on the wiles of women. Methuselah was a biblical patriarch and a figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. His was the longest human lifespan of all those given in the Bible, 969 years. A very humorous volume which makes only facetious claims of authenticity. Written by Frank Gelett Burgess, an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. He is best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as "The Purple Cow", and for introducing French modern art to the United States in an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris." Illustrated by Louis Delton Fancher, an American artist and illustrator, notable for his drawings featured in books, magazines, and propaganda posters during the First World War.