Proposals for printing by subscription The history of Adjutant Trowel and Bluster : containing more in matter and greater variety than any history of the kind extant: it will be printed on fools cap paper, with a good letter, and to consist of thirty chapters, and will be deliver'd to the subscribers at two pence each. The following contents of each chapter is offer'd as a specimen of the performance to the publick perusal.
| Author/creator |
Waterhouse, Samuel, 1729-approximately 1803 |
| Format | Book and Microform |
| Publication Info | [Boston] : [Printed by Thomas and John Fleet], [1766] |
| Description | 8 pages ; (8vo) |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10519 Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10519. ^A478749 |
| General note | A satire in the form of a prospectus. In the Boston Athenaeum copy Trowel and Bluster are identified in a contemporary hand as Thomas Dawes and James Otis. |
| General note | Attributed to Samuel Waterhouse by Evans, who notes: "The date of publication is variously given; but a letter in Fleet's paper, the Boston Evening Post, from Samuel Waterhouse, June 23, 1766, in which he refers to James Otis as James Bluster, esq., gives probability to the above date [i.e., 1766]." Ascribed to the press of T. & J. Fleet by Evans. |
| References | Evans 10519 |
| Reproduction note | Joyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10519). |
| Genre/form | Prospectuses. |
| Genre/form | Satires. |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | NC Microfiche | MICROFICHE AM35E NO. 10519 | ✔ Available |