Modern Manners; or, The Country Cousins: in a Series of Poetical Epistles
London: J. Dodsley, 1782. Second edition. Leather_bound. 12mo. in orginal full calf but a binding copy with the front board present but detached and rear board all but detached. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged but the first edition thus with letters not included in the first ediiton. Frontis engraving. viii+ 165 pp. Offsetting to the title page from the facing frontis engraving otherwise text is basically clean with occasional foxing. The author's first published work. Rev. Samual Hoole (1757-1839) was an English cleric and poet. A collection of "letters" in verse form from various women to each other, men to each other, men to women and vice versa, treating the manners, customs, fashions, etc. of the time. Good. Item #E25129
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