The busy body, or, Men and manners

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Vol. 1. A fashionable fop — A fashionable belle / Williams fect. — Royal methodists — Chief pillars of an illustrious house — Gloucestershire glory — Catching a bald coot in an hospital. Vol. 2. The special retainer, or, A patriotic councellor pleading to the point!!! — Foppish attitudes, or, Well known characters no. 1 / Williams fect. — A barristerial duel, or, Who’s sent to Coventry now — The spa fields hunt-er, or A patriot mounted — The life of Cobbett, Plate 1 — The life of Cobbett, Plate 2. Vol. 3. A minister of state trying on his new livery — The life of Cobbett, Plate 3 / Gillray invt. — The life of Cobbett, Plate 4 / Gillray invt. — Suspension of habeas corpus — Castles in the air, or, Villiany rewarded — Traveling by steam. Vol. IV. View of a sea port in Norfolk — How happy I could be with either!! — Beauties of the saloon, a Prime Minister at Covent Garden Theatre — A peace and plenty.!! (Political portraits, no.1) — Two well known officers on full and half pay — A worldly bishop and a godly curate, or, Pillars of the Church.

  • Title: The busy body, or, Men and manners / edited by Humphrey Hedgehog.
  • Publication: London : Published by J. Johnston, 98, Cheapside, and 335 Oxford Street, 1816-1818.

Catalog Record

61 B982

Acquired September 2023