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The Laughing philosopher : being the entire works of Momus, jester of Olympus; Democritus, the merry philosopher of Greece, and their illustrious disciples, Ben Jonson, Butler, Swift, Gay, Joseph Miller, Esq. Churchill, Voltaire, Foote, Steevens, Wolcot, Sheridan, Curran, Colman, and others. / Translated into our vernacular English tongue, by John Bull, Esq. ; with numerous additions, interpolations, and improvements, by the editor, and different branches of the Bull family.

Title
The Laughing philosopher : being the entire works of Momus, jester of Olympus; Democritus, the merry philosopher of Greece, and their illustrious disciples, Ben Jonson, Butler, Swift, Gay, Joseph Miller, Esq. Churchill, Voltaire, Foote, Steevens, Wolcot, Sheridan, Curran, Colman, and others. / Translated into our vernacular English tongue, by John Bull, Esq. ; with numerous additions, interpolations, and improvements, by the editor, and different branches of the Bull family.
Publication
London: : Published by Sherwood, Jones, and Co. ... John Anderson, Jun. Edinburgh; J. Cumming, Dublin; and to be had of all dealers in classical literature., 1825.

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Additional Authors
  • Bull, John, Esq.
  • Hood, Thomas, 1799-1845.
  • Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834
Description
xii, [13]-767, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.; 14 cm. (12mo)
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Note
  • Attributed by Walter Jerrold to Thomas Hood with the assistance of Charles Lamb. Cf. Cornhill magazine, Nov. 1924.
  • This work is known to exist in at least two states: in state 1, t.p. verso has imprint "London: Printed by A. Applegath, Stamford-street"; in state 2, t.p. verso is blank.
  • Gathering E unsigned; page 65 misnumbered 5.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
OCLC
18176596
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library