Letters from the inspector to a lady : with the genuine answers : both printed verbatim from the originals.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, John, 1714?-1775, correspondent.

Contributor:

Diamond, courtesan, correspondent.

Cooper, Mary, -1761, bookseller.

Grant, Francis Richard Charles, 1834-1899, former owner.

Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940, former owner.

Grant, M., autographer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English letters--Early works to 1800.

English letters.

Genre:

Early works.

Letters.

Physical Description:

[4], 48 pages ; 21 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

tymy otrI e:ch knIt (3) 1752 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noster-Row, MDCCLII [1752]

Notes:

"Letters signed: J.H., i.e. Dr. John Hill, and: D., a courtezan known as 'Diamond'."--English short title catalogue.

With a half-title leaf.

Signatures: [A]² B-G⁴.

Woodcut title ornament.

"[Price One Shilling.]"--Half-title leaf.

Local Notes:

Singer-Mendenhall PR3515.H163 L48 1752 imperfect: leaf [A]1 (half-title leaf) wanting. Armorial bookplate of a member of the Grant family (arms: gules, a chevron engrailed ermine between three antique crowns or; crest: Roman fasces; motto: Leges juraque serva), probably Colonel Francis Richard Charles Grant (1834-1899) on front pastedown with partially illegible manuscript note ("Col. Grant's copy, [...] his note") in pencil above and manuscript note ("Hill's (Sir John) [arrow pointing upward]") in pencil below. Illustrated bookplate ("EX LIBRIS A. EDWARD NEWTON OAK KNOLL") of A. Edward Newton tipped onto front pastedown. Paper sheet with dated 19th-century manuscript anecdote regarding Sir John Hill (signed at end: "F. Grant 25 July. 1894."), probably in the hand of Francis Richard Charles Grant tipped onto front free endpaper. Partially illegible autograph ("M. Grant [...] [...]") at head of title leaf.

Cited in:

English short title catalogue, T38491

OCLC:

3462770