The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless
Subtitle: shewing what his father and mother said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there; how he took his degree, and went to keeping school; how afterwards he becames a great man and wore a wig; and how any body else may do the same.--The like never before published. : Very proper to be kept in all families. : [Three lines of Latin text]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 12585
Publisher: Printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green
Published: 1772
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Higher Education; Anecdotes
Notes: In verse.

Attributed to John Trumbull in BAL.

Ascribed to the New Haven press of Thomas and Samuel Green, who are named in the imprint of the third part (Evans 13052).

Signatures: [A]⁸ B⁴ [C]² ([C]2 verso blank).

With a half-title.

Three states of the gathering [A] noted in BAL; q.v.

"Advertisement. Preparing for the press, The progress of dulness, part second; or, The adventures of Dick Hairbrain."--p. [27].

Evans 12585

BAL 20532

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 402