The Foundling Hospital for Wit, Intended for the Reception and Preservation of Such Brats of Wit and Humour, Whose Parents Chose to Drop Them. Containing the Satires, Odes, Ballads, Epigrams, Etc.

Title: The Foundling Hospital for Wit, intended for the reception and preservation of such Brats of Wit and Humour, whose parents chose to drop them. Containing all the satires, odes, ballads, epigrams, etc. that have been wrote since the change of ministry, many of which have never before been printed. [No. 1 edited by Samuel Silence; No. 2-6 by Timothy Silence.] no. 1-6.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

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British Library
Silence, Samuel
1763
8.
992.l.32.