![PORNEY, Lewis (translator's pseudonym). The New Weekly Novelist; or, Entertaining Companion. Containing a new and complete collection of interesting romances and novels ... The whole newly translated from the French by Lewis Porney. London: Alex. Hogg, [1780?]. 8° (198 x 123mm). 10 numbered engraved plates after Dodd and Dighton. (Offsetting from plates.) Contemporary reversed calf with morocco spine label (spine blackened at foot).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_09702_0191_000(porney_lewis_the_new_weekly_novelist_or_entertaining_companion_contain065543).jpg?w=1)
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PORNEY, Lewis (translator's pseudonym). The New Weekly Novelist; or, Entertaining Companion. Containing a new and complete collection of interesting romances and novels ... The whole newly translated from the French by Lewis Porney. London: Alex. Hogg, [1780?]. 8° (198 x 123mm). 10 numbered engraved plates after Dodd and Dighton. (Offsetting from plates.) Contemporary reversed calf with morocco spine label (spine blackened at foot).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. HIGHLY RARE. Not in BL. The one copy located in ESTC is at the Bodleian, and this appears to lack the final leaf of 'Contents'. Porney is described on the title as 'late teacher of the French language at Richmond, Surry'.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. HIGHLY RARE. Not in BL. The one copy located in ESTC is at the Bodleian, and this appears to lack the final leaf of 'Contents'. Porney is described on the title as 'late teacher of the French language at Richmond, Surry'.