Description
Item Description:Headpieces; factotums.
A general satire, originally published in 2 volumes of 50 numbers each, appearing two or three times a week from Tuesday, May 4, 1714 to Saturday, April 30/Thursday, May 12, 1715.
Some numbers originally published under title: The conductor. Cf. Morgan V124.
"By Hermodactyl, nephew to Alexander Bendo": vol. 1, no. 1. Later issues published under this pseudonym and many others. Attributed to Horneck by Morgan.
"A tissue of nonsense and political abuse, written by Philip Horneck, who is very deservedly stigmatized by Pope in his Dunciad."--Lowndes, Bibl. manual.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Physical Description:volumes ; 17 cm (12mo)