The original edition by Morell published at Eton in 1762, here in a newly revised edition by Edward Maltby, Bishop of Durham, who is reputed to have worked on it for eleven years.
With Hogarth's portrait of Thomas Morell for the first edition. Hogarth, neighbour and close friend of Morell depicts the author, Handel librettist and musician, in the guise of a cynic philosopher with an organ in the background.