The foundling hospital for wit
Subtitle: Intended for the reception and preservation of such brats of wit and humour, whose parents chuse to drop them. Number VI. to be continued occasionally. Containing: The Court Ballad on Dr. C. ... With many other curious pieces, some of which never before printed
By: By Timothy Silence
Publisher: Printed for W. Webb
Published: 1749
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: English literature
Other titles: Foundling hospital for wit, no.6.
Notes: The editorship is usually attributed to Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, but also, though less probably, to the Earl of Chesterfield. In no. i, the editor appears under the pseudonym of "Samuel Silence, esq."

In this edition, p. 5, ℓ. 6 reads "Exemplo et sceleri poena paranda duplex".

Bound with no. i (1763).

Case 440 (6) (a) 1749 (editions not differentiated)

Purchased on June 2, 1903, with the Edgar H. Wells Fund.

No. 6 of six titles bound together.

In CMI case.