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 ...  No. 1-6; 1743-49.
Contributors: Silence, Samuel; Silence, Timothy; William, Charles Hansbury, Sir, 1708-1759; Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Publisher: Reprinted for W. Webb
Published: 1746
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English poetry (Collections)
Notes: No. 1, 2, 4 and 5 in reprint editions of 1763, 1749, 1763 and 1764 respectively.

No. 1, edited by Samuel Silence; no. 2-6, edited by Timothy Silence.  Cf. Brit. Mus. cat.

Timothy Silence has been variously identified as Sir Charles Hanbury Williams and the Earl of Chesterfield.  Cf. N.M.V., baron Rothschild.  The Rothschild library.