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The pupil of pleasure; : exhibiting, the adventures of a man of birth, rank, figure, fortune, and character, ardent in the pursuit of pleasure, much delighted with, attracted by, and formed upon the Chesterfieldean system. : Two volumes complete in one. / By Courtney Melmoth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pratt, Mr. (Samuel Jackson), 1749-1814, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773.
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages, 154 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 157 pages, 1 unnumbered page)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed by Robert Bell, in Third-Street., M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- An epistolary novel, intended to illustrate the pernicious effects of Chesterield's precepts.
- "Courtney Melmoth" is a pseudonym of Samuel Jackson Pratt.
- With a separate title page to each volume.
- "New publications for sale, at Bell's Book-Store ..."--p. [158], 2nd count.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 16020).
- Cited in:
- Evans 16020
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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