The foundling hospital for wit
Subtitle: Intended for the reception and preservation of such brats of wit and humour, whose parents chuse to drop them
By: Containing all the satires, odes, ballads, epigrams, &c. that have been wrote since the change of the ministry, many of which have never before been printed. Number i. to be continued occasionally ... London: Printed 1743
Publisher: Reprinted for W. Webb, near St. Paul's.
Published: 1763
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Notes: "The royal charter of Apollo and the Muses, for establishing an hospital for the ... preservation of such brats of wit and humour whose parents chuse to drop them" (p. [i]-iv) is granted to "Samuel Silence, esq. [pseud.]"; later numbers are ascribed to "Timothy Silence, esq. [pseud.]". The editorship is usually attributed to Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, but also, though less probably, to the Earl of Chesterfield.

Purchased on June 2, 1903, with the Edgar H. Wells Fund.

No. 1 of six titles bound together.

In CMI case.