Venus la populaire, ou, Apologie des maisons de joye : traiduite de l'anglois
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Type of record: Book
Title: Venus la populaire, ou, Apologie des maisons de joye : traiduite de l'anglois
Other titles: Apologie des maisons de joye
Classmark: Anglo-French 2 1796/MAN
Additional creator(s): Phil-Porney (Other); Mandeville, Bernard (1670?-1733) (Other); Ogle, George (1704-1746) (Other); Mercier de Compiègne, Claude-François-Xavier (1763-1800) (Other)
Related people: Phil-Porney; Mandeville, Bernard; Ogle, George; Mercier de Compiègne, Claude-François-Xavier
Publisher: Chez Mercier
Publication city: A Paris
Date(s): 1796
Language: French
Size and medium: xii, [13]-136, 4 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/229797
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012530149705181
Description
Dedication signed "Phil-Pornix" (a Gallicized version of "Phil-Porney" found in the English original). The author has sometimes been identified as Bernard Mandeville, sometimes as George Ogle. Cf. BLC, DNB, Halkett & Laing.
Book-list (4 pages) at end.
Pages 129-136 comprise introduction to and text of George Buchanan's "Ad Briandum Vallium senatorem Burdigal. pro lena apologia".
Additional description
Lower fore-corner of K4 torn away affecting 5 words. Ownership stamp of St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, on flyleaf title-page, and elsewhere
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