A letter to the author of The flying-post; in answer to a most malicious false story of his from Edinburgh; and to a celebrated deistical letter of his from the Grecian Coffee-House. Wherein the gross misrepresentations and blunders of that libeller are expos'd; His unjust Charges against the Church proved false and groundless; The Reverend Clergy vindicated from His Calumnies; His unsufferable Ill-Breeding and Ignorance lash'd; and His own Arguments retorted upon Himself. The whole being both Merry and Serious.

People / Organizations

• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed by and for", or "by/for and sold by")

Imprint

London: printed for, and sold by A. Moore, near St. Pauls, 1718.

Publication year

1718-1718

ESTC No.

N10940

Grub Street ID

930

Description

[4],40p. ; 8⁰

Note

Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions.

"A bantering quasi-Tory tract ... which ... ridicules George Ridpath" (Moore).

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious.

Price from imprint: price Six-Pence.

Uncontrolled note

See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43