AUTHORS WHO HAVE PRIVATELY PRINTED THEIR OWN WORKS

Can any of your readers refer me to any source whence I can obtain an account of "JOHN PAINTER, B.A. of St. John's College, Oxford?" He appears to have been a very singular character, and fond of printing (privately) his own lucubrations; to most of which he subscribes himself "The King's Fool." Three of these privately printed tracts are now before me: —1. *The Poor Man's Honest Praises and Thanksgiving*, 1746. 2. *An Oxford Dream, in Two Parts*, 1751. 3. *A Scheme designed for the Benefit of the Foundling Hospital*, 1751. Who was ROBERT DEVERELL, who privately printed, in 4to., *Andalusia; o…