The general entertainer: or, a collection of near three hundred polite tales and fables. Wherein is contained the lives, adventures, intrigues, sayings, laws, and customs, of most of the greatest personages [etc.]
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Main Collection pre-1900
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Publication Year
1746
Abstract
The general entertainer: or, a collection of near three hundred polite tales and fables. Wherein is contained the lives, adventures, intrigues, sayings, laws, and customs, of most of the greatest personages and countries in the World. The whole collected for the entertainment and improvement of all gentlemen and ladies of wit, humour, and gallantry. In two volumes.
Description
(CON) The dedication is signed A.F. Title page in red and black.||(PHY) Vol I; [A]2, B-H4, I2, K-Lll4, Mmm1, Contents. Engraved frontispiece; [A]1r Title, verso blank; [A]2r Dedication, verso blank; B1r-Mmm1v Text.Vol II; [-]1, Mmm3, Nnn-Xxxxx4, Contents. Engraved frontispiece; [-]1r Title, verso blank; Mmm1r-Xxxxx4v Text.||(REF) Block, p. 83, citing the date as 1747; see estc.bl.uk; added to ESTC 04-06-2013.||(PRV) From the Library of John Charles Hardy, with his bookplate, and another contemporary armorial bookplate.||(BIN) Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, tan label.||(GEN) Anonymous
Biblio Notes
2v. ; 8vo.
Number of Copies
1