The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless, shewing what his father and mother said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there; how he took his degree, and went to keeping school; how afterwards he becames a great man and wore a wig; and how any body else may do the same.--The like never before published. : Very proper to be kept in all families. : [Three lines of Latin text]

Abstract

In verse. Attributed to John Trumbull in BAL. Ascribed to the New Haven press of Thomas and Samuel Green, who are named in the imprint of the third part (Evans 13052). With a half-title. Three states of the gathering [A] noted in BAL; q.v. "Advertisement. Preparing for the press, The progress of dulness, part second; or, The adventures of Dick Hairbrain."--p. [27].