The New Foundling Hospital for Wit, 1768-1773

This work talks about the New Foundling Hospital for Wit, 1768-1773. "The New Foundling Hospital for Wit" is one of the great, popular, yet overlooked collections of British satire.

Its editors knew how to make audiences crave more in the way of the scandalous, salacious and outrageous.

However, like all topical satire, its objects of attack have faded from public consciousness and little attention has been paid to the periodical since it was first published.

Few copies survive and no UK research library holds the full run.

This finely-edited three-volume facsimile edition seeks to redress the balance: the full run is digitally cleaned-up and the edition benefits from full editorial apparatus including a substantial general introduction, a chronology, volume introductions, extensive endnotes, a biographical appendix, an author index, a first line index and a general index.

This publication is printed on acid-free paper that conforms to the American National Standards for the Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.