Barretti, Giuseppe; Samuel Johnson and Mason William

The Ear-Wig; or an Old Woman's Remarks on the Present Exhibition of Pictures of the Royal Academy: Preceded by a Petit Mot Pour Rire, Instead of a Preface. Including Anecdotes of Characters Well Known Amongts the Painter, Observations on the Causes of the Decline of the Arts; a Description of the Buildings of Somerset-House, and the Apartments Occupied by the Royal Academy / a Guide Through the Royal Academy / an Epistle to Dr. Shebbeare: To Which Is Added to an Ode to Sir Fletcher Norton, in Imitation of Horace, Ode VIII, Book IV

London, G. Kearsly / T. Cadell/ J. Almon, 1781. Softcover. Three volumes in one, missing covers, leather spine; VII, 23, 32, 27 pp. Three titles bound in one. The third title is the fourth edition. Publisher's advertisement on rear page of last section. Fair (missing front and rear covers, expected age toning, foxing spots throughout. Title page of the middle volume is torn with top section missing.) .

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Book number: 186599

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old; Poetry: Satire

Keywords: Misc ; Shebbeare, John; Fletcher Norton Grantley; Poetry ; ;