Author: D'Urfey, Thomas.
Title: Wit and Mirth: or Pills to purge Melancholy; being a Collection of the best merry Ballads and Songs, old and new. Fitted to all Humours, having each their proper Tune for either Voice, or Instrument: most of the Songs being new set.
Description: London: Printed by W. Pearson, for J. Tonson . 1719-[1720]. 0. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Six volumes. I: [xiv], 360pp.; II: [x], 348pp.; III: [viii], 352pp.; IV: [viii], 352pp.; V: [viii], 352pp.; VI: [x], 372pp. I: []1, A6, B12-Q12; II: A6 (- A1 blank), B12-P12, Q6; III: A4, B12-P12, Q8; IV: A4, B12-P12, Q8; V: A4, B12-P12, Q8; VI: A6 (- A1 blank), B12-Q12, R6. First complete edition. Nineteenth-century red morocco by Ramage, repaired. With engraved frontispiece portrait of D"Urfey in volume I, and letterpress music in the text throughout. Day and Murrie 236-240, & 242. Very Good.

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