Proposals for Opening a Scotch Eating House, or, North Country Ordinary, and Scotch Chocolate House, In the Neighbourhood of St. James's.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miscellaneous Print Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Restaurants--Humor--Early works to 1800.

Restaurants.

Taverns (Inns)--England--London--Humor.

Taverns (Inns).

Satire, English.

Genre:

Humor.

Early works.

Prospectuses.

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 sheet ([1] page) ; 23 x 16.5 cm

4to.

Other Title:

North country ordinary, and Scotch chocolate house

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed by R. Bassam, St. John's Street West Smithfield, [1799?]

Notes:

First lines read: Dear country folk, / When I considered and rightly weighed the swarms o' ye that come t' this toun, and how yer poor distressed and starved weams want sic good and wholesome meals as ye were used to, ...

Signed at end: Robert M'Mufty. Jonney M'Gusty, both of which are pseudonyms.

A satire on eating houses.

A Thomas Hooper, bookseller, was at 32 Marylebone Street in 1799 (Maxted).

Above imprint: Price three halfpence. - Sold wholesale and retail, at no. 32, Marybone Street, Golden Square.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy imperfect: heavily cropped with loss of imprint and upper part of title.

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Dean Cooke Rare Books Ltd.

Cited in:

ESTC, T42910

OCLC:

1061626497