The conversation of gentlemen considered in most of the ways, that make their mutual company agreeable, or disagreeable : in six dialogues.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Constable, John, 1676-1743.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation--Early works to 1800.

Conversation.

Penn Provenance:

Walmesley, Charles (autograph) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

otnd e.n. g,a- boBo (3) 1738 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by J. Hoyles: and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]

Notes:

Published anonymously. By John Constable. Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: A⁴ B-2A⁶ 2B².

Final page is blank.

Head- and tail-pieces; factotum initials.

Includes index on final four leaves.

Errata on foot of p. [7] at end.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of Charles Walmesley, Westwood, on front pastedown, and his autograph, dated 1802, on recto of front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full brown leather; boards gold-tooled with double fillet borders; cover edges blind-tooled; five raised bands on spine; brief title gold-stamped in one black leather spine panel with gold-tooled triple fillet border; spine rebacked.

Cited in:

ESTC, T96735

OCLC:

4303464