Shelfmark
Kk.3.20
Author
Title
More miseries!! Addressed to the morbid, the melancholy, and the irritable By Sir Fretful Murmur, Knt.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : printed by W. Clowes, Villiers' Street, for H. D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row, and Mathew & Leigh, 18, Strand., 1806.
Physical description
[4], xv, [1], 176 p., [1] fold. leaf of plates : frontis. (hand-col.) ; 16 cm.
Note
Pseudonymous; framed as a series of 12 letters to "Giles Whimble".
Note
Probably written in imitation of James Beresford's Miseries of human life; or The groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy, 1806.--cf. Lowndes, Bibl. manual, v. 3, p. 1575.
Provenance
Contemporary ink inscription at head of title page: Captain Mein.
Binding
19th century half sheep; marbled paper boards; triple gilt fillets on spine either side of four raised bands; maroon leather spine label; sprinkled edges.
Subject
English wit and humor 19th century.
Genre/Form
Epigrams.
Added entry--name
Clowes, William, 1779 - 1847 printer.
Added entry--name
Symonds, H. D. (Henry Delahoy) bookseller.
Added entry--name
Mathews and Leigh bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B51952