An essay on woman, and other pieces
Subtitle: printed at the private press in Great George-street, Westminster, in 1763, and now reproduced in fac-simile from a copy believed to be unique, to which are added, Epigrams and miscellaneous poems now first collected
By: by the Right Hon. John Wilkes ; preceded by an introductory narrative of the extraordinary circumstances connected with the prosecution of the author in the House of Lords, digested and compiled from contemporary writers
Contributors: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744; Potter, Thomas, 1718-1759
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: Priv. print. [by J.C. Hotten]
Published: 1871
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Erotic literature; Women; Humor; Parodies, imitations
Notes: With an appendix (p. [57]-263) of documents and contemporary accounts of Wilkes and others connected with the publication.

Authorship, formerly in much dispute, ascribed also to Thomas Potter, who may have assisted. A parody on Pope's Essay on man, a small portion only of the work being printed. Facsimile of a reprint, as no original is known. Edited perhaps by H.S. Ashbee (cf H. Bleackley, Life of Wilkes, 1917, p. 437) For full discussion cf. E.R. Watson in Notes and queries, 11th ser., v. 9, p. 121, etc. especially p. 184-185; Bleackley, p. 116-117, 437; H.S. Ashbee, Index librorum prohibitorum.

"FSN 12196."

Reproduction of the original from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.