The cocked pistol: a familiar epistle to a friend, requesting his advice on matrimony. To which is added, his answer, containing rules for chusing a wife.
- People / Organizations
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- Imprint
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Glasgow: printed for and sold by Brash & Reid, [1795?]
- Publication year
- 1795
- ESTC No.
- T221491
- Grub Street ID
- 244747
- Description
- 8p. ; 8⁰
- Note
- 'The cocked pistol' signed at end: W. R.
"A friend" = James Morton.
- Uncontrolled note
- Verify the 'W. R' signature'. Another Brash and Reid edition was in 'Poetry; original and selected' for [1798] and [1805?], so implying this is before 1798. The E copy is in one of the three volumes put together by the Brash and Reid printer, Robert Chapman, in 1799