The Agreeable Variety: Being A Miscellaneous Collection, In Prose and Verse, From The Works of the most Celebrated Authors. In Two Parts. Viz. Part I. Containing, 1. Instructive Discourses, on the most Useful Subjects, for the happy Conduct of Human Life. 2. Characters of the most Illustrious Personages of both Sexes, of our own, and other nations: particularly the remarkable Manner of Life of the Excellent Princess of Parma; written by herself, and found among her Papers after her Decease, in the Year 1577. 3. Choice Poems, and Select Passages, extracted from Shakespeare, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Roscommon, Otway, Oldham, Prior, &c. Part II. Containing Original Poems, with sixty Familiar Letters, upon Education, Love, Friendship, &c. By several Eminent Hands. None of which ever before printed. The whole Collected and Published by a Lady. [Epigraph] The Second Edition.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
06/2992
Imprint
London;: Printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red Lyon in Pater-noster-Row., M.DCC.XXIV.
Physical Description
iv, [10], 338, [2] p. 193 mm. (Octavo.)
Contents
[T.p., dedic.] - The Contents - [Text] - Advertisement. The Mistakes in the First Part ... .
Responsibility Note
The work is dedicated by 'J. M.' to Mrs. Pulteney.
References
ESTC, T61568
Summary Note
This is a reprint of the first edition, with a new title page and a dedication leaf.
Reproductions
A microfilm copy was published in 1985 (Woodbridge CT: Research Publications).
Copy Note
The front pastedown carries the armorial book-plate of Stainforth, and is also inscribed in ink, 'P. Garrard'. The front loose endpaper is inscribed in ink, 'of Hesslake, Bristol'.
Binding Note
18th-century calf, covers panelled in blind; gilt-decorated spine, red morocco spine-label lettered 'The Agreeable Variety'.
Subject
Ethics - Social life and customs
Essays - Memoirs - Poems - Letters - Europe - Great Britain - History
Anthologies - Great Britain - 18th century