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Brotherton Collection18
English Literature18

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english literature18
english wit and humor5
erotic literature2
latin literature2
wit and humor2
english letters1
imaginary letters1
poetry1

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Great Britain3
Jamaica1

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Hanbury Williams, Charles4
Hanbury Williams, Sir Charles (1708-1759)4
Voltaire (1694-1778)3
Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)2
Lockman, John (1698-1771)2
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)2
Arbuthnot, John1
Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735)1
Atterbury, Francis1
Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732)1

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Letters concerning the English nation

Voltaire (1694-1778); Lockman, John (1698-1771)

1733

Title page vignette. Publisher's catalogue: p. [15-16] at beginning. Translated by John Lockman.

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Miscellanies in verse and prose

Dennis, John (1657-1734)

1693

First edition. Re-issued as "Miscellany poems" in 1697, with "The passion of Byblis". Numerous errors in pagination.

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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)

Hanbury Williams, Sir Charles (1708-1759)

1743-49

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 voluntee...

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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

Hanbury Williams, Sir Charles (1708-1759)

1743-49

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 voluntee...

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The Foundling hospital for wit : Containing, the balance of Europe... With many curious pieces never before printed, and a general table of contents to the whole

Hanbury Williams, Sir Charles (1708-1759)

1744

Timothy Silence is a pseudonym for C. Hanbury Williams.

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The Foundling hospital for wit : Intended for the reception and preservation of such brats of wit and humour whose parents chuse to drop them

Hanbury Williams, Sir Charles (1708-1759)

1746

Timothy Silence is a pseudonym for C. Hanbury Williams.

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The life and posthumous works of Arthur Maynwaring, Esq : containing several original pieces and translations, in prose and verse, never before printed. To which are added, several political tracts written by him, before and after the change of the ministry

Maynwaring, Arthur (1668-1712); Oldmixon, John (1673-1742); Bell, Andrew (1720); Taylor, William (1723); Baker, J (fl. 1709-1711)

1715

With twelve final leaves of index. The editor's dedication signed: J.O., i.e. John Oldmixon. Page 358 misnumbered 356.

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Dean Swift's literary correspondence, for twenty-four years, from 1714 to 1738

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Gay, John (1685-1732); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732)

1741

At foot of title: "Price 4s. sewed, 5s. bound." Device on t.p. Drop-head title p. [229]: A philosophico-critical history of the deluge. Includes letters from Gay, Pope, Atterbury and Arbuthnot. ...

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Letters concerning the English nation

Voltaire (1694-1778)

1760

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Psyche, with other poems

Tighe, Mary (1772-1810)

1812

Colophon: "Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co.

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