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An essay towards fixing the true standards of wit, humour, raillery, satire, and ridicule : To which is added, an analysis of the characters of an humourist, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Roger de Coverly, and Don Quixote : inscribed to the Right Honorable Robert Earl of Orford / by the author of A letter from a by-stander [Corbyn Morris].

Accession number
PML 9227.7
Creator
Morris, Corbyn, 1710-1779.
Published
London : Printed for J. Roberts, at the Oxford-Arms, in Warwick-lane; and W.Bickerton, in the Temple-Exchange, near the Inner-Temple-Gate, Fleet-street, 1744.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Dedication signed: Corbyn Morris.
With a leaf of errata and advertisements between the dedication and introduction.
Includes (p.66-75) Congreve's Essay concerning humour in comedy.
Description
[2], xxxiv, [2], xxxii, 75, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
Autograph note signed George Daniel, 1820 on fly-leaf; "A.G. Asay 1881" in pencil on back fly leaf; from the Theodore Irwin collection; Pierpont Morgan.
Classification
Book
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Department
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