Mother Midnight's miscellany. Containing, more than all the wit, and all the humour, and all the lea...
Mother Midnight's miscellany. Containing, more than all the wit, and all the humour, and all the learning, and all the judgement, that has ever been, or ever will be. Likewise the Discovery of an unknown World; with some Account of the Religion, Customs, Manners, and Ceremonies of the Glums and Gawrys, Men and Women that Fly: With the Marriage-Ceremony of a Lying Man to a Flying Woman, and many other extraordinary Events, which ought never to be forgotten. First discover'd by Selim, in a Vision, on the Hills of Bagdat, on the sixth Day of the fourth Moon, Anno Mundi, 5791. Dedicated to the King of the Fidlers, and to his Queen, and to the Great Mogul's Jester, and to the greatest Conjurer in all Lapland, and to Bajazet the famous Race-Horse, and to the Gnost of Black and All Black, &c. &c. &c. By Mary Midnight, Midwise to all the Inhabitants of this Cosmos, and to the Choice Spirits in the Elysian Shades. Publish'd (which she always observes) in Conformity to several Acts of Parliament, and by Permission of their Most Christian and Most Catholick Majesties, the Great Mogul, and the States General [electronic resource].
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London : printed and sold by W. Reeve, in Fleet-Street; A. Dodd, opposite St. Clement's Church, in the Strand; H. Slater, the Corner of Clare-Court, Drury-Lane; D. Job, in King's-Street, Covent-Garden; and E. Cook and M. Kingman, at the Royal-Exchange, 1751.
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1751.
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[3],vi-26p. ; 8°.
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London : printed and sold by W. Reeve, in Fleet-Street; A. Dodd, opposite St. Clement's Church, in the Strand; H. Slater, the Corner of Clare-Court, Drury-Lane; D. Job, in King's-Street, Covent-Garden; and E. Cook and M. Kingman, at the Royal-Exchange, 1751.
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England
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1751.
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Mother Midnight's miscellany. Containing, more than all the wit, and all the humour, and all the learning, and all the judgement, that has ever been, or ever will be. Likewise the Discovery of an unknown World; with some Account of the Religion, Customs, Manners, and Ceremonies of the Glums and Gawrys, Men and Women that Fly: With the Marriage-Cere...
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Mary Midnight is a pseudonym.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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ESTC T99347.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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