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Human ordure, botanically considered : the first essay, of the kind, ever published in the world / by Dr. S-----t.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QP159 .S8 1733
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- S-----t, Dr., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feces--Early works to 1800.
- Feces.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Physical Description:
- 29, [3] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- thho y.4. ayht *Pha (7) 1733 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- Printed at Dublin and reprinted at London : For F. Coggan at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, 1733.
- Notes:
- "Sometimes attributed to Jonathan Swift."--ESTC.
- Signatures: A-D⁴.
- Woodcut title ornament, illustrations and initial.
- With a half-title and three pages of advertisement (leaves D3v-D4v). The advertisement is illustrated.
- "[Price Six Pence.]"--Title leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy imperfect: half-title (leaf A1) wanting.
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Boo-Mooray.
- Kislak Center copy bound in quarter marbled leather over marbled paper boards; 2 raised bands on spine; gold-ruled spine panels; gold-stamped red morocco label ("HUMAN ORDURE BY S...T") on spine; all edges read; many blank leaves bound in at end of volume.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T128223
- OCLC:
- 702324347
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