The modern universal story-teller : or, a new picture of human life. Consisting of a greater variety and a better selection of valuable and delightful subjects (calculated for the Pleasure and Improvement of Readers of every Class) than was ever given in any Book of the Kind hitherto published. Forming a Complete Collection of Genuine, Instructive, and Entertaining Stories, Tales, Narrations, Anecdotes, Essays, Histories, Tables, Adventures, Allecories, Visions, Maxims, Romances, Relations, Memoirs, Novels, Criticisms, Wonderful Occurrences, Remarkable Characters, Singular Events, Modern Sketches, Lives, Poems, &c. &c. Among Which, Besides those Articles carefully selected from the most approved English Authors, And from Writers of distinguished Eminence in other Languages, Are Interspersed many original pieces In Prose and Verse. By William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the elegant Quarto Edition of Telemachus, (with fine Plates by the best Artists) and other universally approved Works.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melmoth, William Henry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv,[1],14-448[i.e.248]p.,plate )

Other Title:

Modern universal story-teller

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Alex. Hogg, at the King's Arms, No. 16, Paternoster-Row, [1780?]

Notes:

P.248 misnumbered 448.

The titlepage is a cancel.

Price from imprint: price Three Shillings bound, or Half-a-Crown sewed Embellished with an elegant Frontispiece, illustrating the celebrated Story of Maria, by Sterne.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T132111.

OCLC:

642369377