Seidel+for+Jake+Wirth

A Seidel for Jake Wirth; Raised by Walter Muir Whitehill, Peter A. Wick, Ray Allen Billington, Sinclair Hitchings, Francis W. Hatch, David McCord, John Peterson Elder and Lucien Price in 1964. [Boston, Mass., Privately Printed], 1964.


 * (according to the Oxford English Dictionary a "seidel" is defined as: A beer mug or glass (in quot. 1930 used //loosely//); the quantity that such a vessel will contain.)
 * This book appears to be a sort of tribute to Jake Wirth, the founder of the popular Boston Restaurant. It tells the story of how the restaurant began and developed
 * There are a number differences between this frontis peice and that of Jane Austen's //Persuasion//
 * The red color is much bolder and therefore striking and exciting for the reader
 * The gothic text
 * The ornate border and illustration
 * Humorous, ornate
 * The subject of the book is light and new as opposed to the classic, sophisticated Austen. Thus, the word (or subject of the text) corresponds with the images
 * Extremely German in style which is in line with the subject of the book--a German man and his German restaurant