Front matter
Reading edition
Series One:
Essays on Wit
No. 3
John Gay, The Present State of Wit (1711)
With an Introduction by
Donald F. Bond
and
a Bibliographical Note
and
Excerpts from
The English Theophrastus: or the Manners of the Age (1702)
With an Introduction by
W. Earl Britton
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