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A modest defence of publick stews : or, an essay upon whoring. As it is now practis'd in these kingdoms. By the late Colonel Harry Mordaunt.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online I (ECCO) Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mordaunt, Harry, Colonel.
Contributor:
Phil-porney.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Prostitution--Early works to 1800.
Prostitution.
Genre:
Essays.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii,[4],55,[1]p. )
Other Title:
Modest defence of publick stews
Place of Publication:
London : printed for T. Read, in Dogwell-Court White-Fryars, Fleet-Street, MDCCXL. [1740]
Notes:
Harry Mordaunt is a pseudonym.
Variously attributed to Bernard de Mandeville and George Ogle.
The dedication in the original anonymous 1724 edition signed: Phil-porney.
Price from imprint: price 1 s.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T130482.
OCLC:
642363316

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