The Olio: being a collection of essays, dialogues, letters, biographical sketches, anecdotes, pieces of poetry, parodies, bon mots, epigrams, epitaphs, &c., chiefly original.
London: Hooper & Wigstead, 1796. Second and best edition, corrected and enlarged, and with an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author not included in the first edition; 8vo, pp. [iii]-xxii, & 321, [3] ads; half-title is not preserved; contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label (sometime renewed); front joint cracked, cords holding; good. Among the humorous anecdotes, verses, and essays (on such subjects as begging, funerals, public nuisances, and blundering pedantry), are biographical anecdotes and notices of William Oldys, Joseph Ames, and Dr. Johnson, among others. Item #18749
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