Pills to Purge Melancholy

Subject: Pills to Purge Melancholy
From: GUEST,Greum
Date: 06 May 26 - 10:15 AM

I have found vols 5 and 6 of PPM on Project Gutenberg. Does anyone know if vols 1 to 4 are available anywhere online? Thx

Subject: RE: Pills to Purge Melancholy
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 May 26 - 10:48 AM

If you open Google Books the results show at least that many volumes plus the Bradley Sixty Ribald Songs from Pills to Purge Melancholy. Since those original volumes are free of copyright you'll be able to open the books. (I randomly clicked on a couple of them and they open fine.) The Bradley book is under copyright so it shows you where you can buy a copy or lets you search libraries.

It looks like they ran OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on the books where they could so they may be somewhat searchable.

Subject: RE: Pills to Purge Melancholy
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 06 May 26 - 11:51 AM

archive.org, as far as I remember, has all volumes in more than one edition (1719 and the 1965 reissue of 1876 are on my computer.)

Mick

Subject: RE: Pills to Purge Melancholy
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 May 26 - 06:56 PM

Archive.org (the Wayback Machine) is always an excellent source. They also have a lending library of some books under copyright, so if the Bradley book is in the collection you might be able to check it out to read from the site.