Ye Ugly Face Clubb Leverpoole, 1743-1753..

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In green cloth, white ink edge tooling, gilt image, corners & edges lightly bumped & rubbed. Spine, title in gilt, edges bumped & rubbed. Internally, half title, frontis, [8], 9-100 pp, some leaves uncut, text block edges uncut, some light browning to blanks, the tissue guarded frontis depicts the members singing in a Tavern in Liverpool. A genuine rarity. Pages 78-95 deals with London clubs, coffee houses and Taverns!. Title continues:-A Verbatum Reprint from the original MS. in the collection of the late Joseph Mayer, Esq of Bebington, Cheshire An article reprinted from the Liverpool Mercury, written by the late Mr John Lovell (editor) in July 1887. Extracts from -The secret history of Clubs- with their origins and the characters of the most noted members thereof, 1807. Ugly face clubs that existed in America in the 18thC. Divers clubs, Coffee-Houses, and Tavern in London during the 17th and 18th centuries.