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The pleasures of human life : investigated...cheerfully, elucidated...satirically, promulgated...explicitly, and discussed...philosophically. In a dozen dissertations on male, female, and neuter pleasures. Interspersed with various anecdotes, and expounded by numerous annotations / By Hilarius Benevolus, & Co. [pseudonym]...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR4161.B8 P5 1807
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Britton, John, 1771-1857.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Satire, English.
- Wit and humor.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 223 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.
- Notes:
- Added engraved t.-p.: Mirth versus misery. The pleasures of human life ...
- Plates drawn and etched by Thomas Rowlandson; frontispiece drawn by W. Satchwell, engraved by W. Bond.
- On verso of t.p.: Printed by J. M'Creery...London.
- The "Pleasures" of literature, law, fashion, and politics.
- Occasioned, apparently, by James Beresford's "Miseries of human life; or, The groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy testy...London, 1806."
- Cited in:
- Nineteenth century short title index, series I B4559
- OCLC:
- 11483088
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