The benefit of farting explaind: or, the fundament-all cause of the distempers incident to the fair sex inquir'd into: Proving ? posteriori most of the Disordures in-tail'd on 'em are owing to Flatulencies not seasonably vented. wrote in Spanish, by Don Fart in hando Puff-in dorst, Professor of Bum bast in the University of Craccow. And Translated into English, at the Request and for the Use of the Lady Damp-Fart, of Her-Fart-Shire. By Obadiah Fizle, Groom of the Stool to the Princess of Arse-Mini in Sardinia.

All titles

• The benefit of farting explaind: or, the fundament-all cause of the distempers incident to the fair sex inquir'd into: Proving ? posteriori most of the Disordures in-tail'd on 'em are owing to Flatulencies not seasonably vented. wrote in Spanish, by Don Fart in hando Puff-in dorst, Professor of Bum bast in the University of Craccow. And Translated into English, at the Request and for the Use of the Lady Damp-Fart, of Her-Fart-Shire. By Obadiah Fizle, Groom of the Stool to the Princess of Arse-Mini in Sardinia.
• Benefit of farting explain'd

People / Organizations

• Fart in hando Puff-indorst (Author)
• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's, and sold by the booksellers, [1722]

Publication year

1722-1722

ESTC No.

T115673

Grub Street ID

167367

Description

12p. ; 4⁰

Note

Sometimes attributed to Jonathan Swift, attributed by him ('Correspondence' 2:121) to "one Dobbs a surgeon".

With a half-title.

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious.

Price from imprint: Price 3 d.

Uncontrolled note

See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43