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The merry mountebank : or, The humourous quack-doctor : being a certain, safe and speedy cure, for that heart-breaking distemper, commonly call'd or known by the name of hypochondriac-melancholy ; containing various never failing reipts against spleen and ill-nature ; examplified in a choice collection of old and new songs ; and compiled with great judgment, secundum artem

Title
  1. The merry mountebank : or, The humourous quack-doctor : being a certain, safe and speedy cure, for that heart-breaking distemper, commonly call'd or known by the name of hypochondriac-melancholy ; containing various never failing reipts against spleen and ill-nature ; examplified in a choice collection of old and new songs ; and compiled with great judgment, secundum artem / by Timothy Tulip, of Fidlers-Hall in Cuckoldshire, esq ; a well-wisher to the mathematicks ; figur'd for the harpsichord, and directed for the flute ; the whole revised by several knowing and unknowing musicians, poetasters, balladmongers, and haberdashers of small-wares.
Published by
  1. London : Printed by W. Pearson, in Aldersgate-Street, for A. Holbeche, at the Bible and Crown, in Barbican ; F. Jefferis, at the Bible and Crown, in Ludgate-Street, and C. Pickman, in Ratcliff-Highway, 1732.
Author
  1. Tulip, Timothy.

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Additional authors
  1. Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
  2. Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.
  3. Drexel Collection.
Description
  1. 132 p. of music; 19 cm.
Alternative title
  1. Humourous quack-doctor
Subject
  1. Quackery > Popular Works
  2. Songs with harpsichord
  3. Quackery > Humor
Contents
  1. Containing compositions by P. Prelleur, W. Markham, Vanbrughe, H. Purcell, D. Purcell, Francisco, Courtivill, Carey, Gillier, J. Weldon, Seedo, Hayden, Croft, Cannington, Handel, J. Eccles, Morgan, Leveridge and B. Aldrich.
Call number
  1. Drexel 4131
Note
  1. Timothy Tulip is a pseudonym. Cf. ESTC.
  2. Advertisement on p. 132: "it is resolv'd ... to publish every six months such a volume as this".
  3. No more published?
  4. Includes a list of subscribers, p. [1].
  5. Head-piece; initial.
  6. Signatures: [A]² B-R⁴.
  7. Not in Halkett & Laing.
Indexed in (note)
  1. RISM, B II
  2. Blake, J. NLM 18th cent.
  3. ESTC (RLIN)
Author
  1. Tulip, Timothy.
Title
  1. The merry mountebank : or, The humourous quack-doctor : being a certain, safe and speedy cure, for that heart-breaking distemper, commonly call'd or known by the name of hypochondriac-melancholy ; containing various never failing reipts against spleen and ill-nature ; examplified in a choice collection of old and new songs ; and compiled with great judgment, secundum artem / by Timothy Tulip, of Fidlers-Hall in Cuckoldshire, esq ; a well-wisher to the mathematicks ; figur'd for the harpsichord, and directed for the flute ; the whole revised by several knowing and unknowing musicians, poetasters, balladmongers, and haberdashers of small-wares.
Imprint
  1. London : Printed by W. Pearson, in Aldersgate-Street, for A. Holbeche, at the Bible and Crown, in Barbican ; F. Jefferis, at the Bible and Crown, in Ludgate-Street, and C. Pickman, in Ratcliff-Highway, 1732.
Indexed in:
  1. RISM, B II, p. 232.
  2. Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 461
  3. ESTC (RLIN) T161355
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Added author
  1. Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
  2. Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.
  3. Drexel Collection.
Research call number
  1. Drexel 4131
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