An account of the societies for reformation of manners, in London and Westminster, and in other parts of the kingdom : with a persuasive to persons of all ranks, to be zealous and diligent in promoting the execution of the laws against prophaneness and debauchery, for the effecting a national reformation : published with the approbation of a considerable number of the lords spiritual and temporal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Societies for the Reformation of Manners.

Social problems--Early works to 1800.

Social problems.

Law enforcement--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Law enforcement.

Manners and customs--Early works to 1800.

Manners and customs.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--Early works t0 1800.

Great Britain.

London (England)--Social conditions--Early works to 1800.

London (England).

Physical Description:

22 unnumbered pages, 163 pages, 9 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 21 cm

Fingerprint:

ert, n-re byut seBo (3) 1699 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for B. Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons in Cornhill ; and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1699.

Notes:

Anonymous. By Josiah Woodward. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Daniel Defoe.

With an engraved frontispiece of William III.

Title within double ruled border.

Error in pagination: p. 43 misnumbered 34.

Errata at foot of p. 163.

Publisher's advertisement on verso of p. 163.

The last 4 leaves are "An abstract of the penal-laws".

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy frontispiece reinforced with tape on inner and outer margins.

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), W3512

ESTC, R31843

OCLC:

362401155