Flatman Thomas Attributed (1 results)
More imagesPublished by London: printed for Benj. Tooke, at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet. 1713. London, Benjamin Tooke, 1713. 1713
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First Collected Edition. in contemporary calf, rubbed, spines cracking, heads chipped, wanting labels, numbered in gilt on spines. Two volumes, 12mo, pp. [ix], [i], extra title page and blank leaf inserted in preface, 264; [ii], 252, [15] index, First book edition of a popular humorous work originally published in eighty-two wee…kly numbers from February 1st 1681 to August 22nd 1682. A bestselling Restoration periodical, it contains a series of jests, riddles and satirical dialogues on politics, government, Whigs, Popery, foreign affairs, the penny post and a multitude of ephemeral topics of the day. Persistently attributed to Thomas Flatman, though there are poems included that are not entirely consistent with his style; there may well have been some collaboration involved. ESTC t111102.
