Reader! walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy at a perfectly ruinous rate A fable for critics
Subtitle: or better- I like, as a thing that the reader's first fancy may strike an old fashioned title-page, such as presents a tabular view of the volume's contents- A glance at a few of our literary progenies (Mrs. Malaprop's word) from the tub of Diogenes; that is, a series of jokes by a wonderful quiz, who accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace on the top of the tub.  Set forth in October, the 21st day, in the year '48
By: by G.P. Putnam, Broadway.
Published: 1848
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Other titles: A fable for critics
Notes: First edition, 4th issue.  Cf. Merle Johnson's American first editions.  4th ed., p. 332.