The ghost
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Type of record: Book
Title: The ghost
Classmark: Roberts Collection/CHU
Creator(s): Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Additional creator(s): Flexney, William (1808) (Other)
Related people: Flexney, William
Publisher: Printed for the author, and sold by William Flexney
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1762
Language: English
Size and medium: 213 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/338147
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991011192059705181
Description
In four books.
Book I with general title-page, books III and IV with special title-pages.
Book IV printed for J. Coote, W. Flexney, G. Kearsley, J. Gardner, and J. Almon, dated 1763.
Contains a satirical portrait of Dr. Johnson as Poposo. cf. A.C. Baugh. A literary history of England.
In verse. Title refers to Cock Lane ghost.
Title vignette.
Indexed in: Stonehill,
Additional description
Bound with 14 other items by the same author with spine title: Miscellaneous poems. Volume contents: 1. Night. An epistle to Robert LLoyd. 1761. -- 2. The ghost. Books 1-4. 1763. -- 3. The conference. A poem. 1763. -- 4. The author. A poem. 1763. -- 5. The Smithfield Rosciad (anon.). 1763. -- 6. The Rosciad. Eighth edition with large additions. 1763. -- 7. The apology .... Sixth edition, revised and corrected. 1763. -- 8. The prophecy of famine ... 1763. -- 9. An epistle to William Hogarth. Third edition. 1763. -- 10. The times. A poem. 1764. -- 11. Independence. A poem ... 1764. -- 12. The candidate. A poem. 1764. -- 13. Gotham. A poem. Books 1-3. 1764. -- 14. The duellist. A poem in three books. 1764. -- 15. The farewell. A poem. 1764
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