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A tale of two tubs: or, The B-----rs in Querpo : being a humorous and satirical description of some principal characters that have long shone, in this hemisphere, like stars of the first magnitude ; but on being pass'd through a poetical alembick, are discover'd to be no better than stinking meteors, engender'd in a fog, and after glittering a-while, sink into a caput mortuum ...
- Title
- A tale of two tubs: or, The B-----rs in Querpo : being a humorous and satirical description of some principal characters that have long shone, in this hemisphere, like stars of the first magnitude ; but on being pass'd through a poetical alembick, are discover'd to be no better than stinking meteors, engender'd in a fog, and after glittering a-while, sink into a caput mortuum ...
- Publication
- London : Printed for A. Price, jun ..., 1749.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | no. 1-5 | Text | Use in library | CK p.v. 1 no. 1-5 | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Swift, Jonathan, 1666-1745.
- Description
- [4], 55, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations; 20 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Note
- A satire, in verse, on Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, and Henry Pelham, his brother. The title is in imitation of Swift's Tale of a tub.
- Indexed In (note)
- ESTC
- Foxon
- Teerink-Scouten, Swift bibliog
- Call Number
- CK p.v. 1, no. 1
- OCLC
- 28187699
- Title
- A tale of two tubs: or, The B-----rs in Querpo : being a humorous and satirical description of some principal characters that have long shone, in this hemisphere, like stars of the first magnitude ; but on being pass'd through a poetical alembick, are discover'd to be no better than stinking meteors, engender'd in a fog, and after glittering a-while, sink into a caput mortuum ...
- Imprint
- London : Printed for A. Price, jun ..., 1749.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Indexed In:
- ESTC T049843Foxon T31Teerink-Scouten, Swift bibliog 1011
- Chronological Term
- 1727-1760
- Added Author
- Swift, Jonathan, 1666-1745. Tale of a tub.
- Research Call Number
- CK p.v. 1, no. 1NCI p.v. 76, no. 8