Tory pills to purge Whig melancholy. Being a collection of the best poems, songs, &c. written in defence of church and state.

All titles

• Tory pills to purge Whig melancholy. Being a collection of the best poems, songs, &c. written in defence of church and state.
• Collection of poems, for and against Dr. Sacheverell. Parts 1-4.

People / Organizations

• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for A. Moore, near Fleet-Street, [1715]

Publication year

1715-1715

ESTC No.

T51480

Grub Street ID

278712

Description

[8],111,[1]p. ; 12⁰

Note

Originally published in 1710 as four separate pamphlets, each with the title 'A collection of poems, for and against Dr. Sacheverell'; these four pamphlets were put together and given a general titlepage with the same title; then reissued by Edmund Curll in 1712 as 'Whig and tory: or, wit on both sides'; another reissue of these four pamphlets in 1715 was entitled 'A tory pill, to purge Whig melancholy'; 'Tory pills' is the second edition of 'A tory pill' but with some poems omitted.

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious.

Price from imprint: price 1 s. 6 d.

Uncontrolled note

Sach. 223/1 has a frontispiece, entitled 'Liberty. Slavery', apparently inserted. - See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43