Miscellanea nova
Subtitle: containing, amidst a variety of other matters curious and interesting, remarks on Boswell's Johnson, with considerable additions, and some new anecdotes of that extraordinary character, a critique on Bürger's Leonora, in which she is clearly proved of English extraction, and an introductory essay on the art of reading and speaking in public, in two parts
By: by S. Whyte and his son E.-A. Whyte
Contributors: Whyte, E.-A. (Edward-Athenry); Sheridan, Thomas, 1719-1788; Adam, R. B. (Robert Borthwick), 1863-1940, former owner; Adam, Lena Stevens, former owner; Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)
Publisher: Printed by Robert Marchbank, for the editor Edward-Athenry Whyte, no. 75, Grafton-Street ...
Published: 1801
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Notes: Issued with "The merchant's tale" and "The recreant knights, &c." Also issued with the "Postscript" to "On the origin of Bürgers' Leonora," and with "De castigatione maleficarum" and "Punishment of witches," which immediately follow the "Postscript."

Signatures: [A]⁴ b⁴ B-2A⁴ [superscript chi]2A² 2C-2H⁴ [superscript chi]2H⁴ 2I⁴ [superscript chi]G-H⁴ 2K-2N⁴ chi²; ²[A]⁴ B-2F⁴.

The Remarks on Boswell's Johnson deal mainly with Johnson's relations with Thomas Sheridan; Original letters (p. [89]-144) are selected from correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan and Thomas Whyte.

Publisher's advertisements: [1]-[4], 12th group.

"The introductory essay in the art of reading and speaking in public ...," vii, [1], 120, 113-216 p. at end, has separate t.p. dated 1800, pagination, and signatures. It was bound separately at the option of the buyer. Cf. binder's note at foot of p. [8], 1st group.