The egg, or, The memoirs of Gregory Giddy, Esq : with the lucubrations of Messrs. Francis Flimsy, Frederic Florid, and Ben Bombast : to which are added the private opinions of Patty Pout, Lucy Luscious, and Priscilla Positive : also The memoirs of a right honourable puppy, or, The bon ton display'd : together with anecdotes of a right honourable scoundrel / conceived by a celebrated hen, and laid before the public by a famous cock-feeder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Pauline R. Goldfein Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[2], 3, [1], 232 p., [1] leaf of plates: ill. ; 17 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

Egg

Memoirs of Gregory Giddy, Esq

Fingerprint:

n.in asr- n-he *ATo (3) 1772 (Q)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for S. Smith, and sold by all other booksellers in town and country, [1772?]

Notes:

Imprint date from ESTC.

Signatures: A⁴(-A4) B-K¹² L⁸.

Engraved plate.

Woodcut factotum, head-piece and tail-pieces.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Pauline R. Goldfein Memorial Book Fund.

Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2017 from Christopher Edwards Antiquarian Books & Manuscripts.

Singer-Mendenhall copy bound in 19th-century half calf over marbled boards; boards double-ruled in blind; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; spine panels tooled in gold and blind; gold-stamped black leather spine label ("THE EGG"); all edges stippled red.

Singer-Mendenhall copy has tear in lower portion of leaf L5.

Cited in:

ESTC T96811

OCLC:

228751704