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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Foundling hospital for wit.

Accession number
PML 8484
Published
London : Printed by G. Lion ; reprinted for W. Webb.
Notes
"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."
Nos. 1 (1743) and 4 (1747) reprinted 1763.
Imprint varies: Reprinted for W. Webb (no. 1); Printed for J. Lyon (no. 2); Printed for W. Webb (no. 3-6).
The nos. are variously dated: no. 1, 1763; no. 2, 1749; no. 3, 1746; no. 4, 1763; no. 5, 1764; no. 6, 1749.
Title varies: no. 2-6: with many other curious pieces, some of which were never before printed, by Timothy Silence, Esq.
No. 1 edited by Samuel Silence [pseud.]; nos. 2-6 by Timothy Silence [pseud.]; attributed also to Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.
Description
6 no. in 1 v. ; 20 cm.
Provenance
Toovey collection.
Classification
Department