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System No.
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006384263
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Citation No.
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T115673
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Author - personal
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 Puff-indorst,
Fart in hando.
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| Title
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The
benefit of
farting explaind: or, the
fundament-all cause of the distempers incident to the fair sex inquir’d
into: Proving a posteriori most of the Disordures in-tail’d on ’em are
owing to Flatulencies not seasonably vented. wrote in Spanish, by Don
Fart in hando Puff-in dorst, Professor of Bum bast in the University of
Craccow. And Translated into English, at the Request and for the Use of
the Lady Damp-Fart, of Her-Fart-Shire. By Obadiah Fizle, Groom of the
Stool to the Princess of Arse-Mini in Sardinia.
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Edition
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The sixth edition, revis’d by a College of
Fizz-icians.
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Variant title
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Benefit
of farting explain’d
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Publisher/year
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London
: printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul’s, and sold by the
booksellers, [1722]
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Physical descr.
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12p. ; 4o.
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General note
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Sometimes attributed to Jonathan Swift,
attributed by him (’Correspondence’ 2:121) to "one Dobbs a surgeon".
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With a half-title.
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The bookseller’s name in the imprint is
fictitious.
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Price from imprint: Price 3 d.
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Uncontrolled note
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See Treadwell, M.: ’Of false and misleading
imprints’. In: ’Fakes and frauds’, 1989, pp. 41-43
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