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MERRY MEDLEY - PAMPHLETS
The Merry Medley for Gay Gallants and Good Companions. Containing Diverting Stories, Choice Jests, Dextrous and Delightful Tricks in Leger-de-Main..., and Modish Country Dances... Dedicated to the Lovers of Funn and Good Fellowship, by C.F. President of the Comical Club, in Covent Garden, 8vo

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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MERRY MEDLEY - PAMPHLETS

The Merry Medley for Gay Gallants and Good Companions. Containing Diverting Stories, Choice Jests, Dextrous and Delightful Tricks in Leger-de-Main..., and Modish Country Dances... Dedicated to the Lovers of Funn and Good Fellowship, by C.F. President of the Comical Club, in Covent Garden, Dublin, Ignatius Kelly, 1748; [CARTERET (JOHN, Earl Granville)] The State of the Nation for the Year 1747, and Respecting 1748, Inscrib'd to a Member of Parliament, Dublin, A. Bradley, 1748; [ANON] Miscellanies in Verse and Prose, by Mr. Pope, Dublin, William Ranson, 1748; Endymion: or, the Universal Satirist, 24pp. H. Carpenter, 1748; THOMSON (JAMES) The Castle of Indolence: An Allegorical Poem. Written in Imitation of Spenser, half-title and 2 advertisement leaves [Foxon T185], Dublin, M. Owen, 1748; [MELMOTH (WILLIAM)] Letters on Several Subjects. By the Late Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, title working loose, Dublin, M. Owen, 1748; MOORE (EDWARD) The Foundling. A Comedy, with final advertisement leaf, Dublin, G. and A. Ewing, 1748, 7 works bound in 1 vol., contemporary calf, rubbed, 8vo

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SCARCE, ESTC citing only the National Library, Dublin and Bodleian copies of this Dublin imprint. Merry Medley is a jestbook targeted at the "Gay Gallants" of the coffee-houses, mostly consisting of bawdy doggerel ("A Woman is a Book, and often found/To prove far better in the Sheets than bound/No Wonder then, some students take Delight/Above all Things to study in the Night") and anecdotes (an account of how the anonymous author "surprised a famous Miss of the Town, dining at her lodgings, in an Undress, with two of her female companions"), but also including a section on magic and conjuring ("Comical Tricks", or "Dextrous and delightful tricks in Leger-de-Main"). Of the other works, all printed in 1748 (that on The State of the Nation bound following Merry Medley), one is a volume of poetry and prose falsely attributed to Alexander Pope, including a 28 page essay entitled "Advice to Women", and other pieces on the theme of women.

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