The tricks of the town laid open : or, a companion for country gentlemen : being the substance of seventeen letters from a gentleman in London to his friend in the country, to dissuade him from coming to town : wherein is contain'd, the humorous frauds, tricks, and cheats of tennis-courts ... with the characters of a beau ... also, general reflections on the manners and humours of the town, with a description of the present state of it
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- 8635116
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- Author:
- Gentleman at London, active 1746, author
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- Gale, Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
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- Fourth edition.
- Printer:
- London : [manufacturer not identified], 1755.
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- [Place of publication not identified] : H. Slater, [1755]
- 1 online resource (viii, 94 pages).
- Series:
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
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- "The country gentleman's reply" --page 94-95, 2nd count.
- Reproduction of the originals from Kinsey Institute.
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- Country gentleman, active 1755, author
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- Companion for country gentlemen
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