The muse in good humour: or, A collection of the best poems, comic tales, choice fables, enigmas, &c. From the most eminent poets. With some originals. In two parts. Vol. II

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  • The muse in good humour: or, A collection of the best poems, comic tales, choice fables, enigmas, &c. From the most eminent poets. With some originals. In two parts. Vol. II
  • Muse in good humour. Vol. 2.
  • Muse in good humour: or, A collection of enigma's, serious and comic. With a compleat key to the whole. Part II. Vol. II.
People / Organizations
Imprint
London : printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, 1745.
Added name
Cooper, Mary, -1761, bookseller.
Publication year
1745
ESTC No.
T41629
Grub Street ID
270479
Description
[4], ii, 174, viii, 148 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 12°.
Note
Title page in red and black

Below imprint in square brackets: Price bound three shillings

Engraved title page vignette

Each part has a separate dated title page, pagination and register

Part 1 title page lists contents: Bashful Ben. The ladies looking glass. The merchant's tale. Desire and possession. The Enchantment. The wife of Bath. Truth and falshood. Simple Simon. The imperfect enjoyment. The English padlock. The vision. Middle aged man and his two mistresses. Sauntring Jack and idle Joan. Baucis and Philemon. The original of matrimony. Susannah and the two elders. Female virtue. Love disarmed. Delia's wedding-night. Vertumnus and Pomona. The conscientious keeper. The fox and dragon. The button-hole. The elbow chair. Love attones for little crimes. Saying and doing are two things. Woman's logick. The substitute father. To Cloe. A fragment. The exorcism. The widow's excuse. Falling in love. Balaam's pedigree. The happy night. A game at put

Part 2 "The muse in good humour: or, A collection of enigma's, serious and comic" has an engraved title page illustration

Part 2 "The muse in good humour: or, A collection of enigma's, serious and comic" comprises the sheets of "The muse in masquerade". London: J. Noble, 1745 (ESTC T83724) with a different title page

Signatures: [pi]1 [A]]2] *B-*P]6] *Q]4(-*Q4); A]4] B-N]6] O]2

BEWARE copy filmed at Primary Source Microfilm: The Eighteenth Century, reel 11367. Purports to be vol.1-2, in fact comprises vol.2 only - wanting the general title page and with pt.1 title page and preface bound before pt.2