Table of Contents

Contributors include: Mark Akenside; Christopher Anstey; John Armstrong; Francis Bacon; John Bancks; Richard Bentley; Richard Berenger; William Brereton; Jane Brereton; Isaac Hawkins Browne; George Canning; Lord Capel; Lord Carlisle; Elizabeth Carter; the Earl of Chesterfield; John Churchill; Charles Churchill; Lord Clare; George Colman; William Congreve; John Duncombe; Thomas Edwards; David Garrick; Thomas Gray; John Hackett; the Earl of Hardwicke; Mr Hartis; Lord Hervey; Lady Irwin; Soame Jenyns; William Kenrick; William King; Charlotte Lennox; Robert Lloyd; Lord Lyttelton; William Mason; Sir Joseph Mawbey; William Melmoth; Charles Sackville, Earl of Middlesex; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; Corbyn Morris; Alexander Pope; Thomas Potter; Matthew Prior; William Pulteney, Earl of Bath; Sir Walter Raleigh; George Selwyn; William Shenstone; George Steevens; John Hall Stevenson; Countess Temple; James Thomson; Bonnell Thornton; Charles Townshend; Sir John Vanbrugh; Edmund Waller; Horace Walpole; Phillip, Duke Wharton; Caleb Whitefoord; Paul Whitehead; John Wilkes; Sir Charles Hanbury Williams; William Woty; Charles Yorke

About the Author

Donald W Nichol

Reviews

'Though known today only to specialists, [New Foundling Hospital for Wit] offers many insights into print culture, the history of satire, and the politics of late-18th-century Britain. This attractive facsimile edition should go some way toward giving it the attention it deserves. Although many libraries hold later 18th-century editions, complete sets of the first edition are exceedingly rare. Nichol has done valuable work by collecting them all in one place... Summing Up: Recommended'-J T Lynch,CHOICE