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 off. Number III ...
By: by Timothy Silence
Publisher: Printed for W. Webb near St. Paul's
Published: 1746
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: English literature; English wit and humor
Other titles: Foundling hospital for wit, no. 3.
Notes: "To be continued occasionally."

Signatures: [A]²(-[A]2) B-H⁴ I⁴(-I4).

There is no comma after "hospital" in title; press mark on p. 5: 2; variant press mark 2 on p. 3.

In this edition, ℓ. 6 from the bottom of p. 20 has correct reading, "Mistress, Horse, and Wife".

The editorship is usually attributed to Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, but also, though less probably, to the Earl of Chesterfield. In no. i, the editor appears under the pseudonym of "Samuel Silence, esq."

Bound with no. i (1763).

ESTC t064451 (pages correctly bound).

Case 440 (3) (b) 1746

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

No. 3 of six titles bound together.

In CMI case.