The humourist: being essays upon several subjects, viz. Account of the author. Stock-jobbers. Authors. Travels. Fancy Journalists. The weather. Hope. Education. Prating. Modern inventions. Luxury. Libels. Popular discontents. Great men. Theatrical entertainments. Method in writing. Suicide. Infidelity. Publick sports. Levity. The duty of authors. A club of authors. Happiness. Women. Coffee-houses. Masquerades. Patriotism. Bishop Barnet's History. Mortality. The characters of different nations. Sedition. Hopers. Some characters of the present age. Vol. II.
Thomas Gordon (1684?-1750)
Category
Books
Date
1725
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3222722
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 267, [13] p. ; 12mo. Running number: 7542. Shelved and uniform as a set with vol. 1 (3rd ed., 1725). Provenance: nineteenth-century former shelfmark in pencil on front pastedown: "24 H 17". 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)