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Detailed Entry: [John Cosens] The Economy of Beauty; in a Series of Fables: Addressed to the Ladies. [Book I]

Author(s) [John Cosens]
Unattributed Authorship No
Title The Economy of Beauty; in a Series of Fables: Addressed to the Ladies. [Book I]
Place(s) of Publication London
Publisher(s) Wilkie
Publication Date 1772
Format 20.5 x 26.5 cm.
Pagination or volumes viii + 104
Price 5/3
Reference GM, XLII, 328-9, 382; MR, XLVII, 282-6; HL
Library British Library
Shelfmark Cup.406.c.56.
Comment The fables are after De La Motte. Some specimens were published in "Ethic Amusements," ed. by Daniel Bellamy, jr., in 1768.

This edition has been verified by examining the copy in the library with the shelfmark noted above.