The Present State of Wit (1711) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 50 pages of information about The Present State of Wit (1711).

The Present State of Wit (1711) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 50 pages of information about The Present State of Wit (1711).

Title:  The Present State of Wit (1711) In A Letter To A Friend In The Country

Author:  John Gay

Release Date:  January 27, 2005 [EBook #14800]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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Series One: 

Essays on Wit

No. 3

John Gay, The Present State of Wit (1711)

With an Introduction by

Donald F. Bond

and

a Bibliographical Note

and

Excerpts from

The English Theophrastus:  or the Manners of the Age (1702)

With an Introduction by

W. Earl Britton

The Augustan Reprint Society

May, 1947

Price:  75c

General editorsRichard C. Boys, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Edward N. Hooker, H.T.  Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles 24, California.

Membership in the Augustan Reprint Society entitles the subscriber to six publications issued each year.  The annual membership fee is $2.50.  Address subscriptions and communications to the Augustan Reprint Society, in care of one of the General Editors.

Editorial advisorsLouis I. Bredvold, University of Michigan; James
L. Clifford
, Columbia University; Benjamin Boyce, University of
Nebraska; Cleanth Brooks, Louisiana State University; Arthur
Friedman
, University of Chicago; James R. Sutherland, Queen Mary
College, University of London; Emmett L. Avery, State College of
Washington; Samuel Monk, Southwestern University.

Lithoprinted from Author’s Typescript

EDWARDS BROTHERS, INC.

Lithoprinters

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

1947

THE

Present State

OF

WIT,

IN A

LETTER

TO A

Friend in the Country.

LONDON Printed in the Year, MDCCXI

(Price 3 d.)

INTRODUCTION

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