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A FARTHER
ACCOUNT
OF THE MOST
DEPLORABLE CONDITION
OF
BOOKSELLER;
SINCE HIS BEING POISONED
ON THE 28th of MARCH.
To be published Weekly.
London, printed and sold by all the Publishers, Mercuries, and Hawkers, within the Bills of Mortality. 1716.
THE publick is already acquainted with the manner of Mr. Curll's empoisonment by a faithful, though unpolite historian of Grub street. I am but the continuer of his history; yet I hope a due distinction will be made between an undignified scribbler of a sheet and a half, and the author of a threepenny stitched book, like myself.
"Wit," says sir Richard Blackmore[1], "proceeds from a concurrence of regular and exalted ferments, and an affluence of animal spirits rectified and re-
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