The humourist: being essays upon several subjects, viz. News-writers. Enthusiasm. The spleen. Country entertainment. Love. The history of Miss Manage. Ambition and pride. Idleness. Fickleness of human nature. Prejudice. Witchcraft. Ghosts and apparitions. The weather. Female disguises. The art of modern conversation. The use of speech. The punishment of staying at home on Sunday, &c. Criticism. Art of begging. Anger. Avarice. Death. Grief. Keeping the Ten Commandments. Travel misapply'd. Flattery. The abuse of words. Credulity. Eating. The love of power. The expedients to get rid of time. Retirement. The story of Will. Hacket the enthusiast. With a dedication to the man in the moon. By the author of The apology for Parson Alberoni; the dedication to a great man concerning dedications, &c. The third edition, Vol. I.
Thomas Gordon (1684?-1750)
Category
Books
Date
1725
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3222719
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxx, [6], 240, [12] p. ; 12mo. Running number: 7542. Shelved and uniform as a set with vol. 2 (1725). Provenance: nineteenth-century former shelfmark in pencil on front pastedown: "24 H 16". Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled calf; sewn on three supports; five raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gilt vol. number stamped directly on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Gordon (1684?-1750)