A curious letter from Oliver Puzzle-cause

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Title: A curious letter from Oliver Puzzle-cause
Creator: Puzzle-cause, Oliver
Published / Created: [between 1775 and 1790?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: s.n.
Description: A joke letter; at end is added: "From such examples as of this and that, we are all taught to know - I know not what".
In this edition the title is in two lines; the first line reads "William having received a letter"; the last two paragraphs are set in smaller type than the rest, clearly in order to fit the page.
First line: "Sir. William having received a letter"
In two columns with the title centered above both; the columns are not separated by rules. In this edition the title is in two lines.
Oliver Puzzle-cause is a pseudonym.
Below signature in second column: Price three half-pence.
Mounted on leaf 59. Copy trimmed.
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Provenance: One of three volumes of ballads purchased from P. Murray Hill by W.S. Lewis; July 1948.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 32 x 20 cm
Language: English

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