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The Bon Ton Magazine; or, Microscope of Fashion and Folly, published by W. locke, London: Printed for the Proprietors, and sold by D. Brewman, March 1791 - March 1796. Numbers I - LXI in 5 volumes. 8° (212 x 130mm.). 5 engraved titles, 119 engraved plates only (of 120, but with duplicate plate bound in vol. V, a few leaves repaired, some spotting and browning). Finely-bound in 19th-century green morocco gilt by Riviere, spines gilt in compartments, g.e. (Extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Robert Dudley Winthrop (armorial bookplate); Amory Winthrop (blindstamp on front free endpaper).
RARE. No sets listed on OCLC and no sets or part sets listed as having sold at auction in the past 25 years. A monthly magazine which concentrates on the indiscretions of fashionable London. The plates are mostly of a bawdy, satirical or libertine character and touch upon a variety of themes (ie. cross-dressing, inter-racial eroticism and voyeurism). (5)
RARE. No sets listed on OCLC and no sets or part sets listed as having sold at auction in the past 25 years. A monthly magazine which concentrates on the indiscretions of fashionable London. The plates are mostly of a bawdy, satirical or libertine character and touch upon a variety of themes (ie. cross-dressing, inter-racial eroticism and voyeurism). (5)
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