Monday, 18 July 2011

Poets Ranked By Beard Weight

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Poets Ranked by Beard Weight is the centerpiece of Upton Uxbridge Underwood's (1881 - 1937) estimable, if fetish-fueled treatise on pogonology, or the study of whiskers and associated lore. First published in England on the eve of The Great War, this quaint publication takes the reader on a fascinating excursion.

Poets Ranked by Beard Weight is a classic of Edwardian esoterica, a privately printed leaflet offered to the informed man of fashion and as a divertissement au courant for reading bins and cocktail tables of parlor cars and libraries and smoking lounges of gentlemen's clubs.

(via Everlasting Blort)

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