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The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless, [electronic resource]...

The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless, [electronic resource]...

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The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless, [electronic resource] : shewing what his father and mother said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there; how he took his degree, and went to keeping school; how afterwards he becames a great man and wore a wig; and how any body else may do the same.--The like never before published. Very proper to be kept in all families. [Three lines of Latin text].

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The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless, [electronic resource] : shewing what his father and mother said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there; how he took his degree, and went to keeping school; how afterwards he becames a great man and wore a wig; and how any body else may do the same.--The like never before published. Very proper to be kept in all families. [Three lines of Latin text].

Publisher

[New Haven] : Printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green], in the year 1772.

Uniform title

Progress of dulness, or the rare adventures of Tom Brainless. Pt. 1.

Date

in the year 1772.

Record Identifier

74VKPrB432Jy

MMS ID

991019657269702626

Language

English

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Physical content

vi,[1],8-26,[2]p. ; 8°.

Publication information

Publisher

[New Haven] : Printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green], in the year 1772.

Place of Publication

United States of America

Date Published

in the year 1772.

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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless, [electronic resource] : shewing what his father and mother said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there; how he took his degree, and went to keeping school; how afterwards he becames a great man and wore a wig; and how any body else may do the same.--The...

Notes

General note

"Advertisement. Preparing for the press, The progress of dulness, part second; or, The adventures of Dick Hairbrain."--p. [27].

Ascribed to the New Haven press of Thomas and Samuel Green, who are named in the imprint of the third part (Evans 13052).

Attributed to John Trumbull in the Dictionary of American biography.

In verse.

With a half-title....

Citation / References Note

ESTC W32381.

Evans, 12585.

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 402.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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74VKPrB432Jy

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKPrB432Jy

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MMS ID

991019657269702626