Consisting principally of Original Essays, both in Prose and Verse.

MONITOR, The:

Consisting principally of Original Essays, both in Prose and Verse.

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 spine

Publication 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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Price: £1,200

Subject: Literature

Published Date: 1790

Stock Number: 62181

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