Price: £1,200
Subject: Literature
Published Date: 1790
Stock Number: 62181
(Your basket is currently empty)As published at London and Bristol, in weekly numbers.
Description: some browning and spotting towards the end, A2 partly detached, pp. 166, 8vo, recent buckram backed boards (the boards probably older), longitudinal red lettering piece on spinePublication Details: Bristol: Printed and sold by J. Rose. Sold also by T. Scollick, Little Turnstile, Holborn, London, 1790
Notes: ESTC queries: 'No more published?' In fact, in the final piece 'To the Public' the author frankly states that the paucity of subscribers, their diminishing number, has forced him to conclude the exercise. At the beginning the anonymous author proclaims his intention of erecting 'a perpetual monument of morality.' Aimed at 'the middling sort' it is full of advice to young women, how to protect their virtue, and much family politics - e.g dealing with the extravagance of one's wife. Lavater gets a look-in. Various correspondents write to 'Mr. Monitor' for advice, or to rail at him, with fictitio...more
Bibliography: (ESTC T135295)
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