Pickle for the Knowing by Timothy Dexter

 

An eccentric 1802 memoir by self-styled “Lord” Timothy Dexter, renowned for its bizarre spelling, erratic capitalization—and punctuation-free pages, with a punctuation appendix to “pepper and salt” the text.

• A rare autobiography from early 19th-century America—blatantly autobiographical and self-published .

• Famous for its total lack of punctuation and eccentric formatting—punctuation supplied by readers in later editions

• Chronicles improbable business triumphs, like profiting from coal shipments to Newcastle during a strike

• Offers colorful insight into early American folk personality and unorthodox self-expression.