The Lady's Drawing Room. Being a faithfull Picture Of The Great World. In which the various humours of both sexes are displayíd. Drawn from the life: and interspersíd with entertaining and affecting novels.

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Book
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Category
Main Collection pre-1900  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1744 
Subject
Novel 
Description
(HIS) A Dublin edition was published in the same year, and a second London edition followed two years later.||(CON) A3, B-O12, P9, Contents. A1r Title, verso blank; A2r-A3v Preface; B1r-P9r Text, P9v blank.||(REF) Block, p. 130; ESTC locates ten copies;||(PRV) With John Charles Hardyís bookplate, and an additional contemporary amorial bookplate.||(BIN) Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, gilt lettering, brown label.||(RES) Anonymous.||(ABS) An 'assembly' collection of brief amorous novels, imaginary voyages, and moral histories, told by the visitors to the drawing room of the beautiful Ethelinde. The work is divided into six 'days', each with an introduction describing those present and setting the drawing room in the wider context of society, the narration of a short story and a final discussion of the issues raised by the story. 
Biblio Notes
1v. ; 12mo.  
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