An essay towards fixing the true standards of wit, humour, raillery, satire, and ridicule [electronic resource] : To which is Added, an Analysis Of the Characters of An Humourist, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Roger De Coverly, and Don Quixote. Inscribed to the Right Honorable Robert Earl of Orford. By the Author of a Letter from a by-stander.

An essay towards fixing the true standards of wit, humour, raillery, satire, and ridicule [electronic resource] : To which is Added, an Analysis Of the Characters of An Humourist, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Roger De Coverly, and Don Quixote. Inscribed to the Right Honorable Robert Earl of Orford. By the Author of a Letter from a by-stander.

London : Printed for J. Roberts, at the Oxford-Arms, in Warwick-Lane; and W. Bickerton, in the Temple-Exchange, near the Inner-Temple-Gate, Fleet-Street, MDCCXLIV. [1744]

xxxiv,[2],xxxii,75,[1]p. ; 8vo.

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Dedication signed and dated at end: Corbyn Morris, Feb. 1, 1743.

With a leaf of errata and advertisements included between the dedication and introduction.

Includes: Congreve's 'Essay concering humour in comedy. To Mr. Dennis'.

Braces in title.

Price from imprint: price 2 s.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.

English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), T27754

Great Britain -- England -- London.

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