The life of the late celebrated Mrs. Elizabeth Wisebourn, vulgarly call'd Mother Wybourn; containing secret memoirs of several ladies of the first q-y, who held an assembly at her house; together with her last will and testament. By Anodyne Tanner, M.D. author of the P-c-l Sch-e, &c. and one of her physicians in ordinary

People / Organizations

• Anodyne Tanner (Author)
• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's, [1721?] The second edition.; ..

Added name

Wilkins, William, -1751.

Publication year

1721

ESTC No.

N11149

Grub Street ID

1140

Description

vii, [1], 54 p. ; 8°.

Note

Anodyne Tanner is a pseudonym

A satire. "A purportedly biographical account of the notorious London bawd [Elizabeth Wisebourn]"-- Smith, Sharon. "Defoe's The Complete English Tradesman and the Prostitute Narrative: Minding the Shop in Mrs. Elizabeth Wisebourn, Sally Salisbury, and Roxana." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol. 15 no. 2, 2015, p.33

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious. See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43. Contains a tailpiece used by William Wilkins (See PBSA, June 2016, p. 198)

Apprears to be a reissue of sheets A and H from the first edition (ESTC T65352) with the edition statment added to the title page and the errata removed from p.54. The rest of the sheets (B-G) are in a different setting

The third edition (ESTC T169085) is dated 1721

Below imprint: (Price one shilling.); Headpieces; tailpieces; woodcut initial

Signatures: A-G]4] H]4(-H4?)

Uncontrolled note

Publication date from CLU-C and MB; 1st ed. dated [1721?]. Not a reissue of the 1st ed.; reset. -See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43