Description: The benefit of farting explain'd: or the fundament-all cause of the distempers incident to the fair-sex: ... Wrote in Spanish, by Don Fartinando Puff-indorst, ... and translated into English, ... By Obadiah Fizzle, ... To which are added, I. The wonderful wonder of wonders: ...

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Main Author:	Puff-indorst, Fart in hando ; Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Language:	English
Published:	London R. Thomas 1744
Subjects:	Satire, English - 18th century
Collection:	Benjamin Iveagh

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Item Description:	566
Physical Description:	iv, [1] 40 p. [2] 20 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes the 'Wonderful Wonder of Wonders, being an accurate description ... ' Teerink 905 and 906 cataloguing them separately; notes Swift's denial of authorship of the Benefit and his attribution of it to 'one Dobbs a Surgeon' in a letter to Knightley Chetwood, 13 Mar. 1722 Rothschild 2225, claiming strong evidence for Swift's authorship of the Wonderful Wonder... Woodcut initials, head and tailpieces.Disbound, preserved in cloth box. See archival envelope for additional information. Teerink 905, 906, Rothschild 2225. F4 AR1093

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