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CRIMINAL CONVERSATION -- The Bon Ton Magazine, or, Microscope of Fashion and Folly. London: W. Locke [1791-1794].
4 (of 5) volumes, quarto (230 x 142mm). 3 (of 4) additional engraved titles, 96 engraved plates, part-titles. Vol. II with 7 pp. of ads; vol. IV with 2 pp. of ads. (Vol. IV lacking additional engraved title and 4pp. index and directions to the binder, some occasional light browning, spotting and offsetting of plates onto text.) Uncut in contemporary marbled-paper covered boards, titles printed in black on cream paper spines (extremities lightly rubbed and soiled).
'THE MOST IMPORTANT OF [THE] PREDECESSORS OF PLAYBOY' (Wagner). This extremely successful work of the 'crim. con.' genre, set the pattern for a number of different publications on the same theme, including The Ranger's Magazine (London, 1795). The present work is probably a contemporary reprint, as the additional engraved title to vol I gives the publisher as D. Brewman, instead of Locke. Other copies of the work we have examined give H.D. Symons as an additional publisher in the part-title imprints; these issues contain a double-page typographical 'hieroglyphical letter', which, with the exception of July 1791 in vol. I, are absent in this set. 3 'hieroglyphical' plates sometimes found at the end of vol. I are not present here, presumably as issued; the bibliographic nature of this work has yet to be fully understood. A fifth volume appeared in 1795. ETSC P3004; Wagner Courtoom, p.132; Ward Index of serials, p. 17.
4 (of 5) volumes, quarto (230 x 142mm). 3 (of 4) additional engraved titles, 96 engraved plates, part-titles. Vol. II with 7 pp. of ads; vol. IV with 2 pp. of ads. (Vol. IV lacking additional engraved title and 4pp. index and directions to the binder, some occasional light browning, spotting and offsetting of plates onto text.) Uncut in contemporary marbled-paper covered boards, titles printed in black on cream paper spines (extremities lightly rubbed and soiled).
'THE MOST IMPORTANT OF [THE] PREDECESSORS OF PLAYBOY' (Wagner). This extremely successful work of the 'crim. con.' genre, set the pattern for a number of different publications on the same theme, including The Ranger's Magazine (London, 1795). The present work is probably a contemporary reprint, as the additional engraved title to vol I gives the publisher as D. Brewman, instead of Locke. Other copies of the work we have examined give H.D. Symons as an additional publisher in the part-title imprints; these issues contain a double-page typographical 'hieroglyphical letter', which, with the exception of July 1791 in vol. I, are absent in this set. 3 'hieroglyphical' plates sometimes found at the end of vol. I are not present here, presumably as issued; the bibliographic nature of this work has yet to be fully understood. A fifth volume appeared in 1795. ETSC P3004; Wagner Courtoom, p.132; Ward Index of serials, p. 17.
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