Every-body's business is no-body's business, or , Private abuses, publick grievances : exemplified in the pride, insolence, and exorbitant wages of our women-servants, footmen, &c. : with a proposal for amendment of the same : as also for clearing the streets of those vermin call'd shoe-cleaners, and substituting in their stead many thousands of industrious poor ... : humbly submitted to the consideration of our legislature ... / by Andrew Moreton ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women household employees--England--London--Early works to 1800.

Women household employees.

Wages--Household employees--England--London--Early works to 1800.

Wages.

Rogues and vagabonds--England--London--Early works to 1800.

Rogues and vagabonds.

Wages--Household employees.

England--London.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 36, that is, 32 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The fifth edition, with the addition of a preface.

Other Title:

Every-body's business is no-body's business

Private abuses, publick grievances

Private abuses, publick grievances.

Fingerprint:

r-ce ori- e,et wamo (C) 1725 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for W. Meadows ... and sold by T. Warner ... A. Dodd ... and E. Nutt ..., 1725.

Notes:

Andrew Moreton is Daniel Defoe. Cf. ESTC.

Page numbers 9-12 are omitted in numbering sequence; text is continuous.

Signatures: a² B-E⁴.

Price from imprint: "Price six pence."

Woodcut headpieces and initials on leaf a2 and p.[1], woodcut tailpiece on p.36.

Cited in:

ESTC, N9497

Moore, J.R. Checklist of the writings of Daniel Defoe, 472

OCLC:

771280966