Humour & wit. 1825 The Laughing Philosopher, being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus, Democritus, the Merry Philosopher of Greece, and their Illustrious Disciples Ben Jonson, Butler, Swift, Gay etc. Translated into our English Vernacular tongue by John Bull Esq. Publ. Sherwood, Jones and Co. et al. Publisher's orig. full straight grain morocco binding with gilt tooled spine & titles & gilt emblem and title to front board, engraved frontispiece. Light edgewear to extremities, occ. staining to boards, odd spot internally. An uncommon first edition of this satirical work, anonymously compiled by Charles Lamp & Thomas Hood. Square 16mo.