The Barber and fireworks : A fable. Advertisement. In a few days will be publish'd, a curious print representing the grand fireworks exhibited at Oxford, on the Thanksgiving-Day, from the tower of St. Mary Magdalen to that of St. Michael's Church. The engineers will be placed in their proper attitudes on the respective towers, with letters of reference to distinguish them by name; and a syllabus of the whole performance, contained in three acts, will be printed under the plate, for the benefit of conniseurs in Pyrotechny.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narrative poetry, English--Early works to 1800.

Narrative poetry, English.

Genre:

Poems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (7,[1]p. )

Other Title:

Barber and fireworks

Place of Publication:

London : Pritned for J. Davis, near St. Paul's, and may be had at the Royal Exchange; and of all the booksellers in Oxford, [1749]

Notes:

Verse.

"On a barber (apparently Laury Horner) who planned an abortive firework display in Oxford" (Foxon).

A reply, 'An address to the Worshipful Company of Barbers in Oxford; occasioned by a late infamous libel, intitled, The barber and fireworks', was published in Oxford in 1749.

Price in square brackets: (Price Four-Pence.)

Reproduction of original from National Library of Ireland.

Cited in:

Foxon, B64

English Short Title Catalog, T204151.

OCLC:

509761041