An Exaltation of Larks - or, The Veneral Game - by James Lipton - Hardcover
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| Management number | 4212215 | Release Date | 2025/08/12 | List Price | $24.00 | Model Number | 4212215 | ||
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An Exaltation of Larks: or, The Veneral Game
by James Lipton
hardcover in good used condition
A pride of lions. A shrewdness of apes. A parliament of owls. An exaltation of larks. All are terms of venery, those imaginative collective nouns that evolved in the Middle Ages when the sophisticated art of hunting demanded an equally sophisticated vocabulary. In addition to a passion for sport, our forebears also delighted in the play of words, and so the use of such fanciful phrases became codified, naming particular groups of humans as well as all manner of other creatures. James Lipton has taken the next logical step and invented many new terms of venery as well, to fit the modern world: a wince of dentists, a pound of carpenters, a lot of used car dealers. And so the venereal game goes on. Both the wit and the poetry of these language treasures, old and new, are enhanced by curiously appropriate illustrations from the work of such masters as Dürer and Grandville.
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