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Author Lancaster, Nathaniel, 1701-1775.

Title The pretty gentleman; or, Softness of manners vindicated from the false ridicule exhibited under the character of William Fribble, esq. / Edited by Edmund Goldsmid ...

Publication Info. Edinburgh : privately printed., 1885.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PR3539.L28 P7 1885    Available  ---
Description 32 pages ; 19 cm.
Series Bibliotheca curiosa
Bibliotheca curiosa.
Note "A pretended reply to Garrick's 'Miss in her teens', but in reality a veiled and caustic satire on the softness of manners which Garrick was ridiculing."--Dict. nat. biog.
Text preceded by a letter "to Mr. Garrick", signed "Philautus".
Reprint of the London ed. of 1747. Ed. limited to seventy-five large paper copies, and two hundred and seventy-five small paper copies, issued only to subscribers. Small paper copy.
Added Author Goldsmid, Edmund.