Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 8 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Page Description This is a prefatory or introductory prose page from a Victorian-era text. The visible text explains the author's original intent—to write merely for his own memory and a friend's entertainment—before being persuaded by friends to publish for the public. A Latin epigraph appears mid-page. The page ends with what appears to be a chapter or section heading: "A MONTH's" (text cut off). The typography and condition suggest an 18th or early 19th-century printed book, though the penny dreadful designation cannot be confirmed from this page alone.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
| Ly: 8 iT mientioning the author’s motive for writing them; which'was merely for the affiftance of his own memory, and the entertainment of his worthy friend, at whofe pleafjng im- ‘pulfe he undertook-the journey whieh gave him an opportunity of making them. <¢ Non recito cuiquam, nifi amicis, idque coaétus.” Such wefe the author’s original inten- tions, But, prevailed on by the importu- nity of friends, and thinking, as moft au- thors do, that his work would improve ‘and ‘entertain the' public, he has ventured to’ Gémmit it to theit candid perufal, efteeming it a peculiar happinefs if he fhall have ‘in the leaft contributéd to ‘thefe ends. 20a vr : . A MONTH?’s comicbooks.com