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Author Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.

Title A modest defence of publick stews (1724) / Bernard Mandeville ; introduction by Richard I. Cook.

Imprint New York : AMS Press, [2000].

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.7420942 M312m 2000    ---  Available
Description viii, xii, 78 p. ; 21 cm.
Series Publication / the Augustan Reprint Society ; no. 162
Publication (Augustan Reprint Society) ; no. 162.
Note Original t.p. reads: A modest defence of publick stews, or, An essay upon whoring, as it is now practis'd in these kingdoms / written by a layman. London, Printed by A. Moore near St. Paul's, 1724.
The dedication is signed: Phil-Porney. Has also been attributed to George Ogle. Cf. BLC to 1975.
Previously published: Los Angeles : William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1973.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. viii, 1st group).
Subject Prostitution -- Great Britain.
Added Author Phil-Porney.
Ogle, George, 1704-1746.
ISBN 0404701620 (alk. paper)
9780404701628 (alk. paper)

 
    
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