A miscellany
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)
Publisher: Printed by Robert Marchbank for the editor, Edward-Athenry Whyte ...; Printed by Robert Marchbank for the editor, Edward-Athenry Whyte.
Published: 1799
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Notes: Subsequent editions issued under title: Miscellanea nova, cf. NUC pre-1956, 661:472

Note on p. [ii] indicates that the Miscellany and the Essay on the art of reading are issued both together and separately.

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

Signatures: [a]-b⁴ B-BB⁴.

Publishers ads, p. [x], and [4] p. at end.

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