The muses choice: or, the merry fellow. Being a collection of wit and humour, Diversified with an uncommon Variety of Merry Tales; Pointed Satires; Pastoral Eclogues; Humourous Descriptions, Comic Characters in High and Low Life; Songs, English, Welch, Scots and Irish; Rebusses on Drinking Glasses, &c. Epigrams, smart and tart; Epitaphs, odd and curious, &c. &c. All calculated for the Improvement and Diversion of the Young and the Gay, the Sportive and Facetious; and suited to promote Mirth in Good Company, or divert a melancholy Hour. Extracted, partly, from the works of the most celebrated authors, such as Congreve, Pope, Swift, Gay, Prior, &c. and, partly, from originals,taken from private Manuscripts.

People / Organizations

• R. Whitworth ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for R. Whitworth, at the Feathers, in the Poultry; J. Warcus, at the Indian-Queen, opposite the Mansion-House; R. Richards, next Barnard's-Inn, Holborn; W. Mynors, at the Corner of Chancery-Lane, Holborn; and W. Heard, at the Philobiblian's-Library, Piccadilly, 1754.

Publication year

1754-1754

ESTC No.

N10370

Grub Street ID

379

Description

[4],140p.,plate ; 12⁰

Note

Verse.

Braces in title.

Price from imprint: price One Shilling and Six-Pence stich'd.

Uncontrolled note

plate = frontis