A rare title which seldom comes into hands of collectors...

Item # 704925

May 29, 1733

THE HYP-DOCTOR, London, May 29, 1733 The title is an archaic phrase for a "hodgepodge of nonsense". This curious paper published from 1730-1741, a pro-Walpole (first Prime Minister of Great Britain) newspaper created to oppose another British title "The Craftsman".
The focus is noted in the masthead: "Sharps the Word, or The Waggs Out-Witted; A Particular Reply to the Last Craftsman, to his Cudgel...the Commissioners of the Stamps & Free-Masons Defended...".
A single sheet issue with wide, untrimmed margins, 9 by 14 1/4 inches, red tax stamp on the front page, very nice condition.