Title:  The Present State of Wit (1711) In A Letter To A Friend In The Country

Author:  John Gay

Release Date:  January 27, 2005 [EBook #14800]

Language:  English

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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

The Augustan Reprint Society

May, 1947

Price:  75c

General editors:  Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Edward N. Hooker, H.T.  Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles 24, California.

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Lithoprinted from Author’s Typescript

EDWARDS BROTHERS, INC.

Lithoprinters

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

1947

THE

Present State

OF

WIT,

IN A

LETTER

TO A

Friend in the Country.

LONDON Printed in the Year, MDCCXI

(Price 3 d.)

INTRODUCTION