Accession number
PML 9313.12
Creator
Tuft, Merry.
Published
London : Printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's, 1727.
Credit line
Purchased in the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
A satire.
Half-title: Much ado about nothing, or, The rabbit-woman's confession.
Library's copy forms part of a bound volume (PML 9313) of collected materials pertaining to the notorious case of "rabbit woman" Mary Toft of Godalming; the contents dated 1726-ca. 1819, and including: 11 printed tracts and specimens of satirical verse and prose, 8 prints, 1 pen and ink portrait of Mary Toft by G.P. Harding, and an original manuscript transcription of the "Predictions of William Whiston". All individual items forming the volume have been cataloged separately.
Signed at end: Merry Tuft (pseudonym).
Half-title: Much ado about nothing, or, The rabbit-woman's confession.
Library's copy forms part of a bound volume (PML 9313) of collected materials pertaining to the notorious case of "rabbit woman" Mary Toft of Godalming; the contents dated 1726-ca. 1819, and including: 11 printed tracts and specimens of satirical verse and prose, 8 prints, 1 pen and ink portrait of Mary Toft by G.P. Harding, and an original manuscript transcription of the "Predictions of William Whiston". All individual items forming the volume have been cataloged separately.
Signed at end: Merry Tuft (pseudonym).
Description
23, [1] p. ; 21 cm
Provenance
From the libraries of George Nassau (sale 16 Feb. 1824); and Thomas Jolley (sale 15 June 1852).
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