Harris's list of Covent-Garden ladies, or, Man of pleasure's kalendar, for the year 1773 : containing an exact description of the most celebrated ladies of pleasure who frequent Covent-Garden, and other parts of this metropolis

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Title: Harris's list of Covent-Garden ladies, or, Man of pleasure's kalendar, for the year 1773 : containing an exact description of the most celebrated ladies of pleasure who frequent Covent-Garden, and other parts of this metropolis
Contributor: June, John, printmaker.
Published / Created: MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for H. Ranger, Temple Exchange Passage, Fleet-Street
Description: Page 104 misnumbered '103'.
Signatures: A⁶(-A1) B-N⁶ ²A-B⁶ (- ²B6) [$3 signed (-A2, -G2, 3, -K2, 3, ²B3; A2 signed 'A3')].
Half-title wanting?
Verso of the title page: Contents to the Supplement, for 1773.
Caption title on p. [1], second sequence: Supplement to Harris's list for 1773.
Description based on imperfect copy: final leaf (²B5?) mutilated with loss of upper half. Page numbering based on Contents listed on verso of title page.
Untitled frontispiece, signed in lower left "J. June invt. sculpt." shows a young gentleman approaching a prostitute with the arcade at Covent Garden behind them and a crowd of other men and women engaged in similar activities.
Supposed to have been composed by Jack Harris, waiter at the Shakespear's Head; first edition 1760. Cf. Lowndes who says "Benjamin" Harris.
For further information including E.J. Burford's description of the British Library's 1st ed., consult library staff.
Provenance: H.W. Bleackley's copy with his notes, and clipping from Peter Murray Hill catalogue 50 (1954). Purchased from Howes with three other Harris's lists; January 1949.
Extent: [2], viii, 144, 22 p., 1 leaf of plates : 17 cm (12mo in 6s)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: The second edition.
Language: English