Editore: London: Printed for Tho. Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul s Church-Yard. Price Six-Pence, [1735]., 1735
Da: Stuart Bennett Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, Essex, CT, U.S.A.
[iv], iv, [ii], 57, [1]pp., 8vo. With a preliminary leaf and a final page of publisher s advertisements; first and last pages a bit dusty but an entirely untrimmed copy in old wrappers. Neatly pasted to the verso of the title-page is a clipping from a 1750 periodical, a poem titled "On the first Fit of the Gout" which is an altered version of the poem in the present pamphlet. Probably the third edition, not so stated, with the first appearing in 1699 and another in 1720. There is a satirical dedication to, among others, "all strolling Practitioners and Impostors," There follows various headings: "The Gout gives a Man Pain without Danger"; "The Gout is no constant Companion, but allows his Patients lucid, joyous Intervals"; "The Gout presents you with a perpetual Almanack," and so forth. OCLC supplies two locations for this edition, at Rochester and Yale, with the Yale entry giving the date as 1743. The bookseller s advertisements date to 1735.