The history of the proceedings in the case of Margaret, commonly called Peg, only lawful sister to John Bull, Esq;

People / Organizations

• William Owen ("printed for")

Imprint

London] : Printed [by William Strahan] for W. Owen, near Temple Bar, MDCCLXI. [1761 The second edition.; ..

Added name

Hume, David, 1711-1776, attributed name.; Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816, attributed name.; Strahan, William, 1715-1785, printer.; Owen, W. (William), -1793, bookseller.

Publication year

1761

ESTC No.

T122565

Grub Street ID

173229

Description

[4], 188 p. ; 8°.

Note

A political satire

Anonymous. Attribution is disputed. David Raynor (1982; reissue 2009) suggests David Hume is the author. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Hume (2009) explicitly rejects this and restates the more traditional attribution to Adam Ferguson

Printed by William Strahan, according to the Strahan Ledgers (British Library Add MS 48803); Not a reissue of the sheets of ESTC T122564 but a very close resetting

The setting is different from that of the other second edition (ESTC T214143). In this edition "London" is omitted from the imprint and there is no price on the title page

Signatures: [A]]2 B-M]8 N]6.