Folio Archives 75: How to Cook a Hippopotamus by Ian Pindar 2006
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How to Cook a Hippopotamus by Ian Pindar 2006
The Folio Society has published some unusual and peculiar titles over the years, but this must be one of the weirdest.
It is a collection of sayings, advice, recipes, cures and short stories taken from medical texts, housekeeping guides, boy scout manuals and handbooks published in the 19th. and early 20th. Century. The more ridiculous the extract, the more likely it is to have been chosen by Ian Pindar to be included in this collection.
The small 116 page book is 20x13cm., was used as a promotion to encourage early subscription to the 2007 membership year, and was also sold. It is illustrated on about half the pages with a mixture of monotone and colour sketches by John Holder. It had no slipcase or dust-jacket and was bound in printed paper.
At the back of the book there is a list of sources for each of the extracts and an index so that you can easily look up your favourite bit of nonsense. Topics covered vary from the humourous and ridiculous to the dangerous and lewd, and include:-
- a cure for alcoholism
- how to converse with ladies
- advice on corsets
- concerning “strange women”
- how to choose a wife
- building up your wife’s breasts
- rules for motorists
- how to read a crystal ball
- how to put a bomb in a post office
- how to perform an emergency baptism
- a table to advise hangmen on the correct drop for a person of every weight
- how to avoid work
The most horrendous one to my mind is the recipe for cooking a goose and eating it while it is still alive!
The pictures below have been cropped to show just one page to make reading easier, but if a topic above interests you, (and none of the above topics appear in the pictures) you will just have to buy a copy to satisfy your curiosity.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
Image afficianados may be interested to know that the images for previous entries in this series were uploaded to my Library Thing Junk Folder in order to be posted on FSD. I have now switched to Postimage as the image host, which I believe gives much better quality pictures and is easier to use than the LT site. It is free to use.
The Folio Society has published some unusual and peculiar titles over the years, but this must be one of the weirdest.
It is a collection of sayings, advice, recipes, cures and short stories taken from medical texts, housekeeping guides, boy scout manuals and handbooks published in the 19th. and early 20th. Century. The more ridiculous the extract, the more likely it is to have been chosen by Ian Pindar to be included in this collection.
The small 116 page book is 20x13cm., was used as a promotion to encourage early subscription to the 2007 membership year, and was also sold. It is illustrated on about half the pages with a mixture of monotone and colour sketches by John Holder. It had no slipcase or dust-jacket and was bound in printed paper.
At the back of the book there is a list of sources for each of the extracts and an index so that you can easily look up your favourite bit of nonsense. Topics covered vary from the humourous and ridiculous to the dangerous and lewd, and include:-
- a cure for alcoholism
- how to converse with ladies
- advice on corsets
- concerning “strange women”
- how to choose a wife
- building up your wife’s breasts
- rules for motorists
- how to read a crystal ball
- how to put a bomb in a post office
- how to perform an emergency baptism
- a table to advise hangmen on the correct drop for a person of every weight
- how to avoid work
The most horrendous one to my mind is the recipe for cooking a goose and eating it while it is still alive!
The pictures below have been cropped to show just one page to make reading easier, but if a topic above interests you, (and none of the above topics appear in the pictures) you will just have to buy a copy to satisfy your curiosity.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
Image afficianados may be interested to know that the images for previous entries in this series were uploaded to my Library Thing Junk Folder in order to be posted on FSD. I have now switched to Postimage as the image host, which I believe gives much better quality pictures and is easier to use than the LT site. It is free to use.
5cronshaw
>5 cronshaw: Wonderful advice there, thank you Warwick. The funds I had mentally set aside for the autumn collection before learning of the egregious price hike will now be invested in an inflationary pair of bellows.
6LesMiserables
Enabled.
8LesMiserables
My copy of How to Cook a Hippopotamus: The Folio Book of Quaint and Curious Advice, is on route. $11.45 AUD delivered. Can't complain.
10LesMiserables
>9 wcarter: Ha ha. I didn't realise. I blame >4 mr.philistine: then.
11LesMiserables
Book has arrived. The author is clearly insane.
