The pleasures of human life
Subtitle: investigated cheerfully, elucidated satirically, promulgated explicitly, and discussed philosophically : in a dozen dissertations on male, female, and neuter pleasures : interspersed with various anecdotes, and expounded by numerous annotations
By: by Hilaris Benevolus, & Co. fellows of the "London Literary Society of Lusorists" ; embellished with five illustrative etchings, and two head-pieces
Publisher: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme
Published: 1807
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: English Satire; Wit and humor; Pictorial English wit and humor
Other titles: Mirth versus misery
Notes: By John Britton; occasioned by James Beresford's The miseries of human life; or, The groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy. London, 1806. Cf. Halkett & Laing.

Added title-page, engraved, with title: Mirth versus misery. The pleasures of human life ...

Plates drawn and etched by Thomas Rowlandson; frontispiece drawn by W. Satchwell, engraved by W. Bond.

Abbey, J.R. Life, 260

Halkett & Laing (3rd ed.)