The Foundling hospital for wit : Intended for the reception and preservation of such brats of wit and humour, whose parents chuse to drop them. Containing all the satires, odes, ballads, epigrams, &c. that have been wrote since the change of the ministry, many of which have never before been printed (v.1-3)
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Type of record: Book
Title: The Foundling hospital for wit : Intended for the reception and preservation of such brats of wit and humour, whose parents chuse to drop them. Containing all the satires, odes, ballads, epigrams, &c. that have been wrote since the change of the ministry, many of which have never before been printed (v.1-3)
Classmark: BC Lt/FOU
Additional creator(s): Hanbury Williams, Sir Charles (1708-1759) (Other)
Related people: Hanbury Williams, Charles
Publisher: Printed for G. Lion
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1743-49
Language: English
Size and medium: 6 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/278586
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000799359705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
No more published.
First edition.
Title-pages vary: those for nos.2-5 give a contents list and add: by Timothy Silence, Esq. [pseud. i.e. C. Hanbury Williams].
Folding plate "The female volunteer" bound between pp.24 and 25 of number 3, not called for by Case but evidently appropriate to the surrounding text.
Imprint varies.
Indexed in: Case 440 1-6 (a).
Additional description
Index to Number 1 issued as pp.iii-iv of No.2 bound here immediately before gathering B of Number 1. Early manuscript annotations to each mainly identifying characters, but occasionally correcting text and in one case, identifying an author (no.3, p. 46, Soame Jenyns given as the author of The modern fine gentleman cf. Foxon J63)
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