The abbey of Kilkhampton, or, Monumental records for the year 1960
Subtitle: faithfully transcribed from the original inscriptions, which are still perfect, and appear to be drawn up in a stile devoid of fulsome panegyric, or unmerited detraction; and compiled with a view to ascertain, with precision, the manners which prevailed in Great Britain during the last fifty years of the eighteenth century
By: by the Hon. C. F-x
Edition: The sixth edition, with considerable additions.
Series: Eighteenth century collections online
Publisher: Printed for W. Wilson, No. 6, Dame-Street
Published: 1780
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: English Satire; Epitaphs; Humor
Other titles: Abbey of Kilkhampton; Monumental records for the year 1960
Notes: A satirical collection of epitaphs on prominent persons of the period.

Caption title reads: Monumental records, for one thousand nine hundred and eighty.

Anonymous. By Sir Herbert Croft.

Engraved title vignette (satyr) signed: Duff, sc.

Edition statement at head of title.

Signatures: pi² A-I⁴.

Last leaf blank.

Includes index.

ESTC T121164

Purchase; James Burmester Rare Books; Pipley Old Farm, Upton Cheyney, Bristol BS30 6NG, England; 2011 July 15; 2011-19; Endowment Fund for the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection; bought with 2011-16-18.

Names of some of the people satirized supplied in ms.; ms. notes penciled in shorthand on final leaf.

No. 4 in a volume of 4 Irish and English titles from the mid-18th century.

Imperfect: title page torn, with loss of edition statement; final blank leaf also torn, with bottom part of leaf laid in.

Bound in contemporary half calf and marbled paper-covered boards (joints repaired).