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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.

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Added entry--name

Mathews and Leigh bookseller.

Added entry--place

England London.

Identifier

B51952
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