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unusual facts about recto and verso


People's Teacher of the USSR

On the verso appears the inscription Народный учитель СССР — гордость советского общества (National Teacher of the USSR- Pride of sovietic society).


Grammarians' War

(The title page verso of the work contains an image of a bear being attacked by dogs.) This was a double-pronged reference, because in addition it parodied Whittington's pseudonym of "Bossus" ("bos" + "sus", the reasons for which are unknown), claiming that it was rather a reference to the "Bosse of Billingsgate" water tap, built in Billingsgate in London by Whittington's namesake, that Whittington had somehow fallen in love with.


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