The diverting muse, or, The universal medly.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Ward, Edward, 1667-1731, ed.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humor in literature--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Humor in literature.

Wit and humor--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Wit and humor.

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 v. )

Monthly

The first part. - The sixth part.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : printed and sold by B[enjamin]. Bragge, at the Raven in Pater-noster-row, 1707.

Notes:

Primarily in verse.

Editor and principal contributor: Edward Ward.

Below title: "Written by a society of merry gentlemen, for the entertainment of the town."

Title page includes list of contents.

Imprint includes year of publication.

Note on final leaf of the first issue reads in part, "this miscellany, ... will be continued monthly."

Contributors are requested to send their work to, "Mr George Dagastaff, to be left at Mr Hogarth's Coffee-house in St John's Gate."

With continuous pagination and signatures.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Issues lack chronological designation.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1293

McLeod, W. and V. Graphical directory, 1702-1714, p. 11

Crane & Kaye, 176

English Short Title Catalog, P6354.

OCLC:

642234995