The helter skelter way of writing: or, A new method of criticism. Very awkwardly imitating the Henlean Manner; with several Words to the Wise, the Very Wise, and the Wisest of All. Being a few unaccountable Reflections, Chymically endeavouring to extract Something out of Nothing: Together with the Conundrums of Timothy Wronghead, Doctor Puzzlepate, and Will Blunderbuss, Coffee-House Politicians, upon the unfortunate Title and Dramatis Personae of Momus not happening to Chime with the Times. To which is added, At the Beginning (according to the polite Stile of Scribbling) Tom Thumb's touch upon the hard word etymology: With some Scraps of its Nature for the better understanding a fashionable Dialect of Words without Meaning and Hieroglyphicks. The whole collected from the Politician's Smoaking Journal, and adapted to the present Epicurean Taste of the Town. By Tom Thumb, Secretary, lately-arriv'd from the Cape of Good Hope, in the Egg-Shell-Pacquet Boat. Supervis'd and corrected by Will Bl

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  • The helter skelter way of writing: or, A new method of criticism. Very awkwardly imitating the Henlean Manner; with several Words to the Wise, the Very Wise, and the Wisest of All. Being a few unaccountable Reflections, Chymically endeavouring to extract Something out of Nothing: Together with the Conundrums of Timothy Wronghead, Doctor Puzzlepate, and Will Blunderbuss, Coffee-House Politicians, upon the unfortunate Title and Dramatis Personae of Momus not happening to Chime with the Times. To which is added, At the Beginning (according to the polite Stile of Scribbling) Tom Thumb's touch upon the hard word etymology: With some Scraps of its Nature for the better understanding a fashionable Dialect of Words without Meaning and Hieroglyphicks. The whole collected from the Politician's Smoaking Journal, and adapted to the present Epicurean Taste of the Town. By Tom Thumb, Secretary, lately-arriv'd from the Cape of Good Hope, in the Egg-Shell-Pacquet Boat. Supervis'd and corrected by Will Bl
  • Royal remarks; or, The Indian King's observations on the most fashionable follies.
People / Organizations
Imprint
London : printed for W. Trott, in Russel Court by Drury-Lane, 1730.
Added name
Trott, W., active 1728-1731, bookseller.
Publication year
1730
ESTC No.
N7774
Grub Street ID
52689
Description
[4], 55, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 8°.
Note
Tom Thumb is a pseudonym

The same sheets were also issued under another title with a different title page and different text on [A]3r and half of [A]3v. See ESTC T52969 'Royal remarks; or, The Indian King's observations on the most fashionable follies'

Frontis. plate entitled 'Lo. the orator' and with a quotation from Hudibras

With a half-title

After imprint: (Price 1 s.)