The Causidicade : a panegyri-satiri-serio-comic-dramatical poem : on the strange resignation, and stranger-promotion.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for M. Cooper, in Pater-Noster-Row,
1743.
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| Item Description: | First edition? Another edition, published in the same year, had "By Porcupinus Pelagius" on the title page. Signatures: A-C⁴ D³. A satire on the appointment of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, as Solicitor-General. The pseudonym Porcupinus Pelagius was used by Macnamara Morgan, William Kenrick and others; "Causidicade" is generally attributed to Macnamara Morgan. Cf. Notes and queries, 2d ser., volume 4, page 92; Dict. Nat. Biog.; W.L. Cross, History of Henry Fielding. Has been attributed to Henry Fielding, who denied its authorship in the preface to the second edition of The adventures of David Simple. With a half-title. Verso of half-title (page [2] at front) and final page are blank. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 unnumbered pages, 29 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 26 cm (quarto) |
| Place of Publication: | England -- London. |