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
Contributors: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Publisher: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row
Published: 1807
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: English Satire; Pictorial English wit and humor; Wit and humor
Other titles: Mirth versus misery. The pleasures of human life.
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 engraved and hand coloured title-page headed: Mirth versus misery. The pleasures of human life.

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

Colophon: Printed by J. M'Creery, (Late of Liverpool) Black Horse-Court, Fleet-Street, London.

Abbey, J.R. Life, 260.