Reader! walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy at a perfectly ruinous rate A fable for critics : or, better, (I like, as a thing that the reader's first fancy may strike, an old-fashioned title-page, such as presents a tabular view of the volume's contents) A glance at a few of our literary progenies (Mrs. Malaprop's word) from The tub of Diogenes : a vocal and musical medley : That is, a series of jokes / by a wonderful quiz, who accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace, on the top of the tub. Set forth in October, the 21st day in the year '48.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Fable for critics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--Humor.

American literature.

Genre:

Advertisements -- New York (State) -- 19th century.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Davis, Harry S. (autograph) (Kislak Center PS2309 .A1 1848 copy 2)

Green, Thelma D., Estate of (donor) (Kislak Center PS2309 .A1 1848 copy 2)

Brooks, Edward (autograph) (Kislak Center PS2309 .A1 1848 copy 2)

Physical Description:

v pages, 1 unnumbered page, 80, 8 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

[Second edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : G.P. Putnam, 1848.

Notes:

In verse.

Title page in red and black.

Advertisements: 8 p. at end.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center PS2309 .A1 1848 copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by the Estate of Thelma D. Green. Autographs of Harry S. Davis (dated November 1918) and Edward Brooks (dated 1856). No advertisements at end.

Culture Class Collection copy has stamp of Young Men's Christian Association, Hudson, N.Y. No advertisements at end.

Cited in:

BAL 13064.

OCLC:

9997658