Harris's list of Covent-Garden ladies, or, Man of pleasure's kalendar for the year 1779 : containing the entertaining histories and curious anecdotes of the most celebrated ladies now on the town or in keeping, and also of many of their keepers

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Title: Harris's list of Covent-Garden ladies, or, Man of pleasure's kalendar for the year 1779 : containing the entertaining histories and curious anecdotes of the most celebrated ladies now on the town or in keeping, and also of many of their keepers
Contributor: June, John, printmaker.
Published / Created: [1779]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for H. Ranger, (No. 23,) opposite St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-Street ...
Description: With half-title page: Harris's list of Covent-Garden ladies, for the year 1779.
Below half-title in square brackets: Price 2s. 6d.
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.
Imprint continues: "... where may be had, Harris's list for the years 1771, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8."
Signatures: A-M⁶ (C1 misprinted as 'H') [$3 signed (-A1, -A2, -E1, -E2, C1 signed 'H', )]. With horizontal chain lines.
Supposed to have been composed by Jack Harris, waiter at the Shakespeare's-Head.--cf. Lowndes.
First edition 1760?
H.W. Bleackley's copy with his ms. notes. For further information consult library staff.
Provenance: Purchased at Howes with three other Harris's lists); January 1949.
Extent: xii, 132 p., 1 leaf of plates : 18 cm (12mo in 6s)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

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Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 646 779 H24

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Genre: Early works to 1800
Fiction
Periodicals
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Almanacs
Material: 1 etching ;
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): English wit and humor
Prostitution
Almanacs, English
Sex
Subjects: English wit and humor > Early works to 1800
Prostitution > England > Early works to 1800
Almanacs, English > Early works to 1800
Sex > Fiction > Periodicals
18th century
Bleackley, Horace William, 1868-1931 > Ownership
Bleackley, Horace William, 1868-1931 > Ms. notes

Harris's list of Covent-Garden ladies, or, Man of pleasure's kalendar for the year 1779 : containing the entertaining histories and curious anecdotes of the most celebrated ladies now on the town or in keeping, and also of many of their keepers

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