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
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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
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/278587
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
Bound with 5 other publications in volume lettered: Foundling hospital for wit. Volume contents: 1. Foundling hospital for wit, pt.1, [3rd ed.], 1763 -- 2. Foundling hospital for wit, pt.2, [3rd ed.], 1744 -- 3. Foundling hospital for wit, pt.3, [2nd ed.], 1746 -- 4-6. Foundling hospital for wit, 1st ed., pts. 4-6, 1747-1749
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