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Pope, Alexander, and others] THE DISCOVERY: OR, THE SQUIRE TURN'D FERRET. AN EXCELLENT NEW BALLAD. WESTMINSTER: A. CAMPBELL, 1727 4to, third edition, neatly folded and bound in an 8vo volume with 8 other works relating to the Mary Toft hoax: i) St. André, Nathanael. A short narrative of an extraordinary delivery of rabbets, perform'd by Mr. John Howard surgeon at Guilford. John Clarke 1727, second edition [ESTC T56207]; ii) Brathwaite, Thomas. Remarks on a short narrative of an extraordinary delivery of rebbets...with a proper regard to his intended recantation. N. Blandford, 1726, first edition [ESTC T56205]; iii) Gulliver, Lemuel [pseud]. The Anatomist Dissected: of the Man-Midwife finely brought to bed. Being an examination of the conduct of Mr. St. Andre. A. Campbell, 1727, second edition [ESTC T56399]; iv) Manningham, Richard. An exact diary of what was observ'd during a close attendance upon Mary Toft, the pretended rabbet-breeder of Godalming in Surrey. Fletcher Gyles, 1726, second edition [ESTC T56209]; v) Ahlers, Cyriacus. Some observations concerning the woman of Godlyman in Surrey...tending to prove her extraordinary deliveries to be a cheat and imposture. J. Roberts, 1726, first edition [ESTC T56024]; vi) The several depositions of Edward Costen, Richard Stedman, John Sweetapple, Mary Peytoe, Elizabeth Mason, and Mary Costen; relating to the affair of Mary Toft... J. Pemberton, 1727, first edition, with final unnumbered leaf [ESTC T56204]; vii) "Tuft, Merry". Much ado about nothing; or, a plain refutation of all that has been written or said concerning the rabbit-woman of Godalming. A. Moore, 1727, first edition [ESTC T55626]; viii) Douglas, James. An advertisement occasion'd by some passages in Sir R. Manningham's diary lately publish'd. J. Roberts, 1727, first edition [ESTC T56026]; all 8vo, later half calf over marbled boards, occasional browning