Chrysal, or, The adventures of a guinea
Subtitle: wherein are exhibited views of several striking scenes, with curious and interesting anecdotes, of the most noted persons in every rank of life, whose hands it passed through, in America, England, Holland, Germany, and Portugal ...
By: by an adept
Contributors: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: The fifth edition, greatly inlarged and corrected.
Publisher: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, at Tully's-Head, near Surry-Street, in the Strand
Published: 1766
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Humor; Politics and government; Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
Other titles: Chrysal; Adventures of a guinea
Notes: "[A]n adept" is Charles Johnstone. Cf. ESTC.

A thinly-veiled chronicle of contemporary scandals in political high life, ca. 1757-1763. Touches the Sackville affair, Byng's execution, half-price riots at Drury Lane, the Essay on woman, the Hellfire Club, etc. V. 1-2 issued in 1760; those 2 vols. were expanded in 2d & 3d editions; v. 3-4 continued the enlargement and were intended to accompany 4th & later eds. of v. 1-2.

Edition statement varies: v. 1-2 each has: "The Fifth Edition, greatly inlarged and corrected." ; v. 3-4, without edition statement, is the first edition of the continuation, published in 1765. Cf. ESTC T128716.

Signatures: v. 1: A¹² b⁶ B-M¹² ; v. 2: A⁶ B-N¹² O⁶ ; v. 3: pi1 A¹⁰( -A3,A4 +A3.A4) B-M¹² O² ; v. 4: A⁴ a⁶ B-M¹² N⁸ (leaf N8 blank).

Pagination: v. 1: xxxv, [1], 264 p. ; v. 2: [12], 300 p. ; v. 3: [22], 280 p. ; v. 4: [20], 277, [3] p.

Woodcut head-pieces and tail-piece.

Typographical ornaments.

English short title catalogue, T119101

English short title catalogue, T128716

Raven, J. British fiction, 1750-1770, 1016

Halkett, S. Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature (1926-62 edition), I, 348

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.