Accession number
PML 127219
Published
London : [Printed for T. Edlin], Printed in the year 1731.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Notes
Numbered in ink at upper left of t.p.: "no 36."
Parody of a pamphlet by whig leader William Pulteney, with Figg standing for Sir Robert Walpole and Jonathan Wild for Bolingbroke; the amphitheatre for pugilists stands for the government.
Possibly by Henry Fielding, who later used Hercules Vinegar as a pseudonym, or by someone else using the name as a pseudonym (see Battestin).
Publisher's name from colophon.
Parody of a pamphlet by whig leader William Pulteney, with Figg standing for Sir Robert Walpole and Jonathan Wild for Bolingbroke; the amphitheatre for pugilists stands for the government.
Possibly by Henry Fielding, who later used Hercules Vinegar as a pseudonym, or by someone else using the name as a pseudonym (see Battestin).
Publisher's name from colophon.
Description
23, [1] p. ; 18 cm
Binding
Original pale blue wrappers; in a modern case.
Classification
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