Author: POETS (Most Eminent) [sic]:
Title: The Muse in Good Humour: Or a Collection of Comic Tales. By the most Eminent Poets. The Sixth Edition
Description: London: Printed for F. and J. Noble..., 1751 12mo, 164 x 96 mms., pp. 329 [330 - 332 Contents], engraved frontispiece (by Picart), contemporary calf, gilt number "1" on spine, red leather label; small wormhole on frontispiece continuing to page 50, not affecting text, but rather curiously affecting frontispiece. Noble printed the first part of this work, in 1744, consisting of [4] + 144 pages; in 1745, M. Cooper produced a work with a similar title but completely different contents, first in one volume, then in two. Noble produced a second part, with new contents, in 1746. An edition of1746 appears to be the first time that the two parts as previously published by Noble appear in the same volume. Noble produced a second volume in 1757, and the two volumes were first published together in 1766. Presumably at some stage, this was part of a set with a later volume, but ESTC lists it as a single volume. Some of the poems might have been judged in the 18th century as being too robust for the ears of a lady. ESTC T41630 locates copies in BL, Bodleian, Leeds; Huntington, Louisiana State, Newbery, Princeton, Arizona, Yale; Toronto.

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